• European radiology · Nov 2015

    Comparative Study

    Interest of HYPR flow dynamic MRA for characterization of cerebral arteriovenous malformations: comparison with TRICKS MRA and catheter DSA.

    • Raphaël Dautry, Myriam Edjlali, Pauline Roca, Cécile Rabrait, Yijing Wu, Kevin Johnson, Olivier Wieben, Denis Trystram, Christine Rodriguez-Régent, Fawaz Alshareef, Patrick Turski, Jean-François Meder, Olivier Naggara, and Catherine Oppenheim.
    • Department of Radiology, Centre de Psychiatrie et Neuroscience, INSERM S894, Centre Hospitalier Sainte-Anne, Université Paris Descartes Sorbonne Paris Cité, DHU Neurovasc, 1 rue Cabanis, 75014, Paris, France.
    • Eur Radiol. 2015 Nov 1; 25 (11): 3230-7.

    ObjectiveHYPR flow is a 3D dynamic contrast-enhanced MRA technique providing isotropic sub-millimetre resolution with half-second temporal resolution. We compared HYPR flow and time-resolved imaging of contrast kinetics (TRICKS) MRA for the characterization of cerebral arteriovenous malformations (cAVMs), using catheter DSA as reference.MethodsTwenty-two patients underwent HYPR flow and TRICKS MRA within 15 days of DSA. HYPR flow and TRICKS datasets were reviewed separately by two readers for image quality, Spetzler-Martin grade, venous ectasia, and deep venous drainage.ResultsImage quality was better for HYPR flow than for TRICKS (narrower full width at half maximum; larger arterial diagnostic window; greater number of arterial frames, P ≤ 0.05). Using HYPR flow, inter-reader agreement was excellent for all cAVM characteristics. The agreement with DSA for the overall Spetzler-Martin grade was excellent for HYPR flow (ICC = 0.96 and 0.98, depending on the reader) and TRICKS (ICC = 0.82 and 0.95). In comparison to TRICKS, HYPR flow showed higher concordance with DSA for the identification of venous ectasia and deep venous drainage.ConclusionOwing to an excellent agreement with DSA with respect to depiction of the vascular architecture of cAVMs, HYPR flow could be useful for the non-invasive characterization of cAVMs.Key Points• Dynamic MRA is used for cerebral AVM depiction and follow-up • HYPR flow is a new, highly-resolved dynamic MRA sequence • HYPR flow provides whole brain coverage • HYPR flow provides excellent agreement with the Spetzler-Martin grade • Compared to TRICKS MRA, HYPR flow improves cerebral AVM characterization.

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