Focal Hepatic Lesion Detection: Comparison of Four Fat-suppressed T2-weighted MR Imaging Pulse Sequences
- 1 May 1999
- journal article
- Published by Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Radiology
- Vol. 211 (2), 363-371
- https://doi.org/10.1148/radiology.211.2.r99ma23363
Abstract
PURPOSE: To evaluate fat-suppressed T2-weighted magnetic resonance (MR) imaging with conventional spin-echo (SE), breath-hold fast SE, respiratory-triggered fast SE, and breath-hold multishot SE echo-planar sequences for the detection of focal hepatic lesions. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Fat-suppressed T2-weighted MR images obtained with the four sequences in 55 patients with 81 solid and 129 nonsolid lesions were retrospectively analyzed. Image review was conducted on a segment-by-segment basis; a total of 440 liver segments were reviewed separately for solid and nonsolid lesions by three independent radiologists. Diagnostic accuracy was evaluated with receiver operating characteristic analysis. RESULTS: The mean lesion-to-liver contrast-to-noise ratio was highest on the multishot SE echo-planar images of both solid and nonsolid lesions. Fat-suppressed respiratory-triggered fast SE images had significantly better (P < .05) or comparative detectability of both solid and nonsolid lesions compared with the other types of images. Image quality was best on the respiratory-triggered fast SE images. CONCLUSION: Fat-suppressed respiratory-triggered fast SE imaging should replace fat-suppressed conventional SE imaging as a standard T2-weighted imaging examination in the detection of focal hepatic lesions.Keywords
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