3D T1-weighted black-blood magnetic resonance imaging for the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis.

Imaging techniques have an increasing place in the diagnosis of giant cell arteritis (GCA). Achieving a confident diagnosis of GCA is often challenging and temporal artery biopsy is still considered as the gold standard despite the delayed results. 3T-MRI with 2D sequences has been evaluated for the detection of mural inflammation in extracranial arteries to support the diagnosis of GCA.We evaluated the diagnostic performance of fat-suppressed...