An incomplete list of medical research projects using iCafe

·       Identification of vasculature differences between dementia subjects with healthy controls [1].

·       Quantitative monitoring cerebral blood flow before and after carotid revascularization surgery [2].

·       Validation of TOF MRA sequence reproducibility [3].

·       Quantitative angiographic contrast mechanism analysis for MRA sequences [4].

·       Collateral flow quantification in peripheral arteries [5].

·       Exploration of medicine effect on intracranial arteries for Parkinson’s disease (manuscript under review).

·       Exploration of the relation between vascular features and hypertensive factors in elderly males (manuscript under review).

·       Quantitative comparison of intracranial arteries of infants and elderly (manuscript under review).

References

[1]        L. Chen et al., “Quantitative Intracranial Vasculature Assessment to detect dementia using the intraCranial Artery Feature Extraction ( iCafe ) Technique,” Proc. Annu. Meet. Int. Soc. Magn. Reson. Med. Palais des congrès Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada May 11-16, 2019.

[2]        M. Shirakawa et al., “Quantitative assessment of cerebrovascular structure after carotid revascularization using intraCranial Artery Feature Extraction ( iCafe ) Technique,” Proc. Annu. Meet. Int. Soc. Magn. Reson. Med. Montréal, QC, Canada, 11-16 May, 2019, 2019.

[3]        L. Chen et al., “Quantification of morphometry and intensity features of intracranial arteries from 3D TOF MRA using the intracranial artery feature extraction (iCafe): A reproducibility study,” Magn. Reson. Imaging, vol. 57, no. December 2018, pp. 293–302, 2018.

[4]        Q. Zhang et al., “Angiographic contrast mechanism comparison between Simultaneous Non-contrast Angiography and intraPlaque hemorrhage (SNAP) sequence and Time of Flight (TOF) sequence for intracranial artery,” Magn. Reson. Imaging, Sep. 2019.

[5]        L. Chen et al., “Development of a Quantitative Assessment tool for Peripheral Artery Feature Extraction (pCafe),” Proc. Annu. Meet. Int. Soc. Magn. Reson. Med. Montréal, QC, Canada, 11-16 May, 2019, 2019.

Updated on Dec 30, 2019