Joint intracranial and carotid vessel wall imaging in 5 minutes using compressed sensing accelerated DANTE-SPACE.

Objectives: To compare visualization of joint intracranial and carotid vessel walls between 5× compressed sensing accelerated three-dimensional DANTE-SPACE sequence (CS VWI) acquired in 5 min and the same sequence accelerated by 2.7× parallel imaging (PI VWI) which takes 9-10 min currently.

Methods: Following institutional review board approval and informed consent, 28 subjects including 20 stroke patients underwent PI and CS VWI examinations with an acquired spatial resolution of isotropic 0.