Clinical Blood Pool MR Imaging

Part I. Contrast Agent Properties and Technical Aspects

1. MRI Contrast Media — Introduction and Basic Properties of the Blood Pool Agent Gadofosveset (Vasovist®)
Martin Rohrer

2. Technical Aspects of Contrast Enhanced MRA — First Pass and Steady State
Harald H. Quick

Part II. Safety and Efficacy

3. Risks and Safety Issues Related to Radiological Imaging, in Particular MRI
Gunnar Brix

4. Summary of Safety of Vasovist® at 0.03 mmol/kg Body Weight Dose — Clinical Data
Matthias Voth, Andrea Löwe

5. Efficacy of Vasovist®: Overview of the Clinical Development Program
Mathias Goyen

Part III. Blood Pool Agents in MRA: Indications, Clinical Applications and Benefits

6. Head and Neck MRA
Marco Essig, Frederik L. Giesel

7. Pulmonary MRA
Christian Fink, Ulrike Attenberger, Konstantin Nikolaou

8. Abdominal MRA
Henrik J. Michaely

9. MRA of the Peripheral Vasculature
Tim Leiner, Jeffrey H. Maki

10. Magnetic Resonance Venography
Giles Roditi

11. Whole-body MRA
Harald Kramer, Maximilian F. Reiser, Konstantin Nikolaou

12. Endoleak Imaging
Sandra A. P. Cornelissen, Mathias Prokop, Hence J. M. Verhagen, Lambertus W. Bartels

13. Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Joachim Lotz

Part IV. New Horizons in Vascular Diagnostics

14. Vasovist® for Imaging Ischemic and Congenital Heart Disease
Sebastian Kelle, Gerald F. Greil, Reza Razavi, Eike Nagel

15. Vasovist® in Brain Tumor Imaging
Marco Essig, Clemens Fitzek

16. Vasovist® in Lymph Node Imaging: Present Status and Future Development
Max J. Lahaye, R. Bert Jan Bondt, Sanne M. E. Engelen, Geerard L. Beets, Regina G. H. Beets-Tan

17. Vasovist® for Breast Cancer Recognition
Joan C. Vilanova, Klaus Wasser

18. Vasovist® for Multiple Sclerosis Recognition
Michael Forsting

19. Interventional MR Imaging
Michael Bock, Frank Wacker

20. Vasovist® in Lymphography
Christoph U. Herborn

Part V. Image Processing

21. Image Post-processing of Blood Pool MR Angiograms
Joachim Graessner

Part VI. Pharmacoeconomic Impact

22. Health Economic Benefits of Vasovist®

Carsten Schwenke, Susanne Kienbaum, Karsten Bergmann

23. Patient Management and Referrals: The Impact of High-resolution Steady state MRA with Vasovist®

Winfried A. Willinek, Dariusch R. Hadizadeh

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Imaging / Radiology