Fast spin-echo triple echo dixon: Initial clinical experience with a novel pulse sequence for simultaneous fat-suppressed and nonfat-suppressed T2-weighted spine magnetic resonance imaging

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 390-400

  Low, Russell N ^a   Austin, Matthew J ^b   Ma, Jingfei ^c  

^a San Diego Imaging Medical Group   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

2 point Dixon; fat suppression; MR imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BODY FAT; BODY WATER; BONE MARROW EDEMA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISKITIS; EDEMA; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; FAST RECOVERY FAST SPIN ECHO; FAST SPIN ECHO TRIPLE ECHO DIXON TECHNIQUE; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK HERNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHORT TAU INVERSION RECOVERY IMAGING; SOFT TISSUE EDEMA; SPINAL CORD LESION; SPINE; TUMOR;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPIN LABELS; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINE;

EID: 79551529514     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22453     Document Type: Article

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