Hemodynamics Comparison Between Type2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients and Healthy Controls Using 4D Flow MRI
Jiachen Ji1, Di Wu2, Yunduo Li1, Shenghong Ju2, and Rui Li1
1Center for Biomedical Imaging Research, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2Zhong Da Hospital Southeast University, Nanjing, China
In
the study, we identified the reproducibility of the processing and measuring
procedure of abdominal 4D Flow data and discovered the significant hemodynamic
differences in the affected vessels between T2DM patients and controls using 4D
Flow MRI.
Figure1.
Abdominal Blood Flow Visualization and a Contour Used to Measure Hemodynamic
Parameters
Figure 2. Representative Blood Flow Condition in
Renal Arteries: a T2DM Patient with Unbalanced Blood Flow (upper) and a Healthy
Control with Balanced Blood Flow (lower)