Fetal-placental MR angiography at 1.5 T and 3 T

Feifei Qu; Taotao Sun; Julio Marin-Concha; Sunil Jaiman; Ling Jiang; Swati Mody; Edgar Hernandez-Andrade; Karthikeyan Subramanian; Zhaoxia Qian; Roberto Romero; E Mark Haacke

doi:10.1016/j.mri.2023.05.003

Fetal-placental MR angiography at 1.5 T and 3 T

Magn Reson Imaging. 2023 Oct:102:133-140. doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2023.05.003. Epub 2023 May 18.

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¹ Department of Radiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA.
² Department of Radiology, International Peace Maternity and Child Health Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Embryo Original Diseases, Shanghai, China. Electronic address: taotaosun_mri@126.com.
³ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA; Perinatology Research Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MI, USA.
⁴ Perinatology Research Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MI, USA; Department of Pathology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA.
⁵ Department of Radiology, International Peace Maternity and Child Health Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Embryo Original Diseases, Shanghai, China.
⁶ Department of Radiology, Children Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI, USA.
⁷ Perinatology Research Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MI, USA; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA; Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA,; Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, MI, USA,; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.
⁸ Department of Radiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA. Electronic address: nmrimaging@aol.com.

PMID: 37207824
PMCID: PMC10616819 (available on 2024-10-01)
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2023.05.003

Abstract

Objectives: The objective of this work was to investigate the application of 2D Time-of-Flight (TOF) magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) to observe the placental vasculature at both 1.5 T and 3 T.

Methods: Fifteen appropriate for gestational age (AGA) (GA: 29.7 ± 3.4 weeks; GA range: 23 and 6/7 weeks to 36 and 2/7 weeks) and eleven patients with an abnormal singleton pregnancy (GA: 31.4 ± 4.4 weeks; GA range: 24 weeks to 35 and 2/7 weeks) were recruited in the study. Three AGA patients were scanned twice at different gestational ages. Patients were scanned either at 3 T or 1.5 T using both T₂-HASTE and 2D TOF to image the entire placental vasculature.

Results: The umbilical, chorionic vessels, stem vessels, arcuate arteries, radial arteries, and spiral arteries were shown in most of the subjects. Hyrtl's anastomosis was found in two subjects in the 1.5 T data. The uterine arteries were observed in more than half of the subjects. For those patients scanned twice, the same spiral arteries were identified in both scans.

Conclusions: 2D TOF is a technique that can be applied in studying the fetal-placental vasculature at both 1.5 T and 3 T.

Keywords: Hyrtl's anastomosis; Magnetic resonance angiography; Placental vasculature.

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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Female
Humans
Infant
Magnetic Resonance Angiography* / methods
Placenta* / diagnostic imaging
Pregnancy

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