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Successful management of patients with peripheral vascular disease requires detailed vascular imaging, usually performed by contrast arteriography. Recently, magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) has been shown to be a noninvasive technique with greater sensitivity than contrast arteriography for detecting distal runoff vessels in patients with peripheral arterial occlusive disease. However, to supplant the need for contrast arteriography and provide a completely noninvasive evaluation of patients with occlusive disease, accurate imaging of the inflow vessels and the runoff vessels is necessary.
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