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Yoneyama M, Takayama Y, Nishie A, Nakamura M, Katsumata Y, Takemura A, Obara M, Okuaki T, Honda H, Van Cauteren M. Differentiation of hypointense nodules on gadoxetic acid-enhanced hepatobiliary-phase MRI using T2 enhanced spin-echo imaging with the time-reversed gradient echo sequence: An initial experience. Eur J Radiol 2017; 95:325-331. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2017.08.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2017] [Revised: 08/15/2017] [Accepted: 08/25/2017] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Pawluk RS, Borrello JA, Brown JJ, McFarland EG, Mirowitz SA, Tsao LY. A prospective assessment of breath-hold fast spin echo and inversion recovery fast spin echo techniques for detection and characterization of focal hepatic lesions. Magn Reson Imaging 2000; 18:543-51. [PMID: 10913716 DOI: 10.1016/s0730-725x(00)00150-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The purpose of this study was to prospectively assess two breath-hold T(2)-weighted fast spin-echo sequences and two breath-hold inversion recovery fast spin-echo sequences to determine their relative ability to detect and characterize focal hepatic lesions. Fourteen patients with a total of nineteen proven focal hepatic lesions were imaged with two breath-hold T(2)-weighted (T2W) fast spin echo sequences (HASTE TE = 66 and HASTE TE = 120), two breath-hold inversion recovery fast spin echo sequences (IRFSE TE = 64 and IRFSE TE = 95), and a nonbreath-hold T(2)-weighted fast-spin echo sequence (FSE TE = 96-120). Contrast-to-noise ratios (CNRs) were measured for all proven lesions on all sequences. Both IRFSE sequences and the HASTE sequence with TE = 66 showed an improvement in lesion-liver and liver-spleen CNRs compared to the nonbreath-hold T2W sequence. The mean difference in CNR between benign and malignant lesions was largest for the HASTE TE = 120 sequence. These preliminary results suggest that a breath-hold IRFSE sequence (TE = 64 or 95) has an equal ability to detect focal hepatic lesions as a nonbreath-hold T2W FSE sequence (TE = 96-120). The HASTE TE = 120 showed the greatest ability to discriminate between benign and malignant lesions.
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- R S Pawluk
- Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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Jafari F, Nayeri N, Tahsini M, Khodadoust AA. Differentiation of hepatic cavernous hemangioma from metastases by rare sequence MR imaging. Magn Reson Imaging 1999; 17:669-77. [PMID: 10372520 DOI: 10.1016/s0730-725x(99)00008-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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In this study, in order to differentiate cavernous hemangioma and hepatic metastases, rapid acquisition relaxation enhanced (RARE) sequence was used. First, in vivo measurements of T1, T2 relaxation times and proton density were obtained using T1, T2 calculation protocol (TOMIKON S50, 0.5T) and multipoint techniques. These measurements were made from regions of interest placed over the liver, spleen (because of similarity of relaxation time values between hepatic metastases and spleen) and cavernous hemangioma (HCH). Based on these intrinsic parameters, T2 curves signal intensity of three different tissues were constructed. At TE = 500 ms, the signal intensity of the liver and spleen has been near zero whereas in HCH, the signal intensity remained. As RARE sequence is very similar to spin echo (SE), by replacing effective TE(ETE) = 500 ms in the RARE equation, two dimensional contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) contour plots were constructed demonstrating signal intensity contrast between liver-spleen, liver-Hemangioma for two different scan times (3 min, 7.5 s) and pulse timing. Then, optimal RARE factor and inter echo times were obtained in order to have maximum CNR between liver-Hemangioma and minimum CNR between liver-spleen. These optimal parameters were performed on ten normal and five persons with known HCH. Images showed that in both scan times (3 min, 7.5 s); the liver and spleen were suppressed whereas the HCH was enhanced. The image quality in the scan time of 3 min was better than the scan time of 7.5 s. Moreover, in this study, two different sequences were compared: i) Multi-slice single echo (MSSE) for T1 weighted image ii) RARE (ETE = 80 ms) for T2-weighted image. This comparison was done to show maximum CNR between liver-spleen (metastases) and to choose a better sequence for detecting metastases. CNR in the RARE sequence was more than in the MSSE sequence.
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- F Jafari
- Department of Medical Physics, Tehran Medical Sciences University, Iran.
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Kim TK, Lee HJ, Jang HJ, Kim AY, Han JK, Choi BI. T2-weighted breath-hold MRI of the liver at 1.0 T: comparison of turbo spin-echo and HASTE sequences with and without fat suppression. J Magn Reson Imaging 1998; 8:1213-8. [PMID: 9848731 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.1880080606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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To compare the clinical usefulness of T2-weighted breath-hold sequences for imaging the liver, 33 patients with 97 focal hepatic lesions were studied with a 1.0-T scanner by using T2-weighted breath-hold turbo spin-echo (SE) sequences and T2-weighted breath-hold half-Fourier single-shot turbo SE (HASTE) sequences with and without fat suppression. Images were quantitatively analyzed for liver signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and lesion-to-liver contrast-to-noise ratios (CNR). Qualitative analysis was performed for lesion conspicuity, motion artifacts, and anatomic sharpness of extrahepatic structures. Breath-hold turbo SE imaging with fat suppression showed the highest CNR for cystic lesions and the best lesion conspicuity for cystic and solid lesions among the four sequences. For solid lesions, there was no significant difference of lesion-to-liver CNR between them. HASTE sequence was superior to turbo SE sequences in terms of motion artifacts; however, the usefulness for evaluating focal hepatic lesions was limited compared with turbo SE sequence with fat suppression. Addition of fat suppression was not helpful for HASTE imaging because of decreased lesion conspicuity and extrahepatic details without the advantage of reducing motion artifacts. This study suggests that turbo SE sequence with fat suppression is most useful for breath-hold T2-weighted liver imaging at 1.0 T. Addition of imaging without fat suppression can be considered for evaluating extrahepatic structures. HASTE sequence may have a role for imaging uncooperative patients due to absence of motion artifacts.
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- T K Kim
- Department of Radiology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, University Hospital, Korea
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Coates GG, Borrello JA, McFarland EG, Mirowitz SA, Brown JJ. Hepatic T2-weighted MRI: a prospective comparison of sequences, including breath-hold, half-Fourier turbo spin echo (HASTE). J Magn Reson Imaging 1998; 8:642-9. [PMID: 9626880 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.1880080319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The purpose of this study was to quantitatively compare the hepatic contrast characteristics of conventional spin-echo (CSE) and fast spin-echo (FSE) sequences with breath-hold T2-weighted images acquired with half-Fourier turbo spin echo (HASTE). Forty-five patients were examined with a phased-array surface coil. Nineteen patients had focal hepatic lesions, including eight malignant tumors, 10 cavernous hemangiomas, and one hepatic adenoma. Twenty-six patients had no focal hepatic lesions. T2-weighted images with comparable TE were acquired with CSE, FSE, and HASTE pulse sequences. Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) for liver, spleen, and lesions were measured. FSE demonstrated significantly better quantitative performance than CSE for liver-spleen CNR (P .0084). No statistically significant difference was demonstrated between FSE and CSE for liver or spleen SNR. FSE demonstrated clear scan time and resolution advantages over CSE. HASTE performed significantly poorer than CSE and FSE for liver-spleen CNR (P < .0001), liver SNR (P = .0002 for CSE and P < .0001 for FSE), and spleen SNR (P < .0001). Optimized FSE images with a short echo train length performed comparably to CSE images of equivalent TE. Liver-lesion CNR was suppressed on HASTE images, suggesting that long echo train length FSE sequences could diminish solid lesion detection compared to CSE and short echo train length FSE.
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- G G Coates
- Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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Spiral imaging has a number of advantages for fast imaging, including an efficient use of gradient hardware. However, inhomogeneity -induced blurring is proportional to the data acquisition duration. In this paper, we combine spiral data acquisition with a RARE echo train. This allows a long data acquisition interval per excitation, while limiting the effects of inhomogeneity. Long spiral k-space trajectories are partitioned into smaller, annular ring trajectories. Each of these annular rings is acquired during echoes of a RARE echo train. The RARE refocusing RF pulses periodically refocus off-resonant spins while building a long data acquisition. We describe both T2-weighted single excitation and interleaved RARE spiral sequences. A typical sequence acquires a complete data set in three excitations (32 cm FOV, 192 x 192 matrix). At a TR = 2000 ms, we can average two acquisitions in an easy breath-hold interval. A multifrequency reconstruction algorithm minimizes the effects of any off-resonant spins. Though this algorithm needs a field map, we demonstrate how signal averaging can provide the necessary phase data while increasing SNR. The field map creation causes no scan time penalty and essentially no loss in SNR efficiency. Multiple slice, 14-s breath-hold scans acquired on a conventional gradient system demonstrate the performance.
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- W Block
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-4055, USA
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Gauger J, Holzknecht NG, Lackerbauer CA, Sittek H, Fiedler KE, Petsch R, Reiser M. Breathhold imaging of the upper abdomen using a circular polarized-array coil: comparison with standard body coil imaging. MAGMA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 1996; 4:93-104. [PMID: 8875395 DOI: 10.1007/bf01772516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Current studies emphasize the use of array coils to decrease noise and increase the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR). We applied T1-weighted and T2-weighted standard nonbreathhold spin echo (SE) sequences and T1-weighted FLASH, TurboFLASH, T2-weighted spin-echo time (TSE), and heavily T2-weighted half Fourier acquisition single-shot TSE (HASTE) sequences during breathhold for abdominal imaging in 15 normal volunteers. The breathhold scans were performed using both a standard coil and a circular polarized array coil. We analyzed the signal intensity (SI), SNR, and CNR of abdominal organs in all sequences. SNRs increased in all cases by an overall factor of approximately 3 due to an 8% increase in overall SIs and a 50% decrease in noise when applying the array coil. Although the array-coil FLASH sequence performed at least as well as the respective SE sequence, the SNRs of the array-coil TurboFLASH, TSE breathhold, and HASTE sequences were generally lower. We conclude that array-coil imaging significantly improves fast imaging of the abdomen.
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- J Gauger
- Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Klinikum Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
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Spritzer CE, Keogan MT, DeLong DM, Dahlke J, MacFall JR. Optimizing fast spin echo acquisitions for hepatic imaging in normal subjects. J Magn Reson Imaging 1996; 6:128-35. [PMID: 8851417 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.1880060124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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The purpose of this study was to determine which implementations of a T2-weighted fast spin-echo sequence of the liver resulted in observer preference in normal subjects. Five volunteers were scanned with a series of fast spin-echo sequences modified to allow for flow compensation, respiratory triggering (RT), ECG triggering, randomized phase encoding (RPE), breath-holding, and echo train length (ETL). Images were compared with conventional 2500/40/80 msec spin-echo images using flow compensation and spatial presaturation by two observers blinded to the specific sequence parameters. All FSE sequences were completed in less than the 12 minutes necessary to perform a conventional spin-echo sequence. The most preferred fast spin-echo sequence employed flow compensation, RT, and used an 8 ETL. Analysis of image preference, signal to noise, and contrast to noise showed that RT was the single most important variable in determining each image response (P < .01, P < .02, P < .01, respectively). There was some evidence that images obtained with an 8 ETL were preferred over those using a 16 ETL (P = .07). No other variables approached statistical significance although one reader preferred images with flow compensation in the frequency direction to those either not flow compensated or flow compensated in the slice direction. Respiratory triggered fast spin-echo images combined with flow compensation in the frequency direction and using ETL = 8 can provide image quality equal to conventional spin-echo sequences with significant time savings.
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- C E Spritzer
- Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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Ding S, Trillaud H, Yongbi M, Rolett EL, Weaver JB, Dunn JF. High resolution renal diffusion imaging using a modified steady-state free precession sequence. Magn Reson Med 1995; 34:586-95. [PMID: 8524027 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.1910340415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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A modified steady-state free precession (SSFP) diffusion sequence is proposed for high resolution renal imaging. A pair of bipolar diffusion gradients was used to minimize the errors in measured apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) caused by variations in T1, T2, and RF flip angle that have been observed with previously employed SSFP diffusion sequences. Motion sensitivity was reduced by the use of compensated gradients, frame-by-frame averaging, and a repetition time of 22 ms, which for a single-acquisition 128 x 128 image requires only 3 s. High resolution was achieved by signal averaging. The modified sequence was applied to in vivo diffusion measurements. In six normal rat kidneys the ADCs (mean +/- SD; x 10(-3) mm2/s) of the cortex, outer medulla, and inner medulla were 2.28 +/- 0.05, 2.38 +/- 0.10, and 2.95 +/- 0.05, respectively. The technique requires relatively large gradients to achieve adequate diffusion weighting.
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- S Ding
- NMR Research Center, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
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Pearlman JD, Edelman RR. ULTRAFAST MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING. Radiol Clin North Am 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0033-8389(22)00391-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/15/2022]
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Semelka RC, Shoenut JP, Kroeker RM. T2-weighted MR imaging of focal hepatic lesions: comparison of various RARE and fat-suppressed spin-echo sequences. J Magn Reson Imaging 1993; 3:323-7. [PMID: 8448393 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.1880030206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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The authors prospectively compared four T2-weighted magnetic resonance (MR) sequences, including high-resolution 512 x 512 (matrix size) RARE (rapid acquisition with relaxation enhancement), 256 x 256 RARE, 128 x 256 breath-hold RARE, and 192 x 256 fat-suppressed spin-echo (T2FS) sequences, in the evaluation of 16 patients with focal hepatic masses. MR images were evaluated by quantitative lesion-liver signal difference-to-noise ratios (SDNRs) and subjective evaluation of image artifact and image quality. No significant differences were observed between RARE sequences in SDNR values. The T2FS sequence had a significantly higher SDNR than the 512 x 512 RARE sequence (24.6 +/- 15.0 vs 14.5 +/- 9.7) (P = .008). Image quality was rated highest for the 512 x 512 RARE and T2FS sequences (P = .006). The inherent advantage of high spatial resolution suggests that the 512 x 512 RARE sequence may be of value in detecting hepatic lesions.
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- R C Semelka
- St Boniface General Hospital, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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Jackson PC, Davies SC, Zananiri FV, Bean JP, Follett DH, Halliwell M, Wells PN. The development of equipment for the technical assessment of respiratory motion induced artefacts in MRI. Br J Radiol 1993; 66:132-9. [PMID: 8457826 DOI: 10.1259/0007-1285-66-782-132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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A device and technique to study the effects of respiratory motion on the quality of magnetic resonance images is proposed. The construction of the device enables a variety of test objects to be mounted and used in the evaluation of imaging parameters that may be affected by motion. The equipment is constructed of cast acrylic and the movement is actuated and controlled pneumatically thus ensuring that there are no interactions with the magnetic field and radiofrequency detection system to cause further image artefacts. Separate studies have been performed, using ultrasound, to assess the degree and rate of movement of organs owing to respiration in order to derive the motion parameters for the apparatus. Preliminary results indicate that the technique produces motion induced artefacts simulating those which are the result of the effects of respiration.
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- P C Jackson
- Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering, Bristol General Hospital, UK
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