Liver: T2-weighted MR Imaging with Breath-hold Fast-Recovery Optimized Fast Spin-Echo Compared with Breath-hold Half-Fourier and Non–Breath-hold Respiratory-triggered Fast Spin-Echo Pulse Sequences
- 1 June 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Radiology
- Vol. 223 (3), 853-859
- https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.2233011011
Abstract
At liver magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in 38 patients, a breath-hold T2-weighted fast spin-echo (SE) pulse sequence optimized with fast recovery was compared with a conventional respiratory-triggered fast SE sequence and a breath-hold single-shot fast SE sequence. Mean signal-to-noise ratios for liver and contrast-to-noise ratios for hepatic lesions were higher with the breath-hold fast-recovery fast SE sequence than with the respiratory-triggered fast SE sequence (P <.05). Breath-hold fast-recovery images displayed better lesion clarity than did single-shot fast SE images (P <.05) and fewer image artifacts than did respiratory-triggered fast SE images (P <.05). The ability to determine lesion size and the overall image quality was best with the breath-hold fast-recovery sequence (P <.05). These results may justify use of the breath-hold fast-recovery fast SE pulse sequence for first-line T2-weighted MR imaging of the liver.Keywords
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