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Abstract #0622

Cerebrospinal Arterial and Venous Blood Flow Variability Assessed with 4D Flow MRI

Eric Mathew Schrauben1, Kevin M. Johnson1, Jason Huston2, Aaron Field2, Oliver Wieben1, 2

1Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, United States; 2Radiology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, United States

The testing of the CCSVI hypothesis necessitates reproducible flow quantification in the head and neck veins, which have shown to be affected by many physiological variables. This study demonstrates the use of PC VIPR for testing reproducibility in the cerebrospinal veins.

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