MR HYSTEROGRAPHY USING AXIAL LONG TR IMAGING WITH 3-DIMENSIONAL PROJECTIONS OF THE UTERUS

A rapid screening technique for the presentation of uterine cavity ana tomy obtained with MR is described, MR hysterographic (MRHG) images we re generated and evaluated for uterine cavity abnormalities, Six patie nts referred for MRI evaluation of the uterus for infertility had an M RI using a pelvic phased array coil with axial 3 mm interleaved fast s pin echo images (TR 9000 ms, TE 288 ms with fat saturation) processed using maximum intensity projection algorithms to construct MRHG images , Using the conventional MR sequence as the gold standard the MRHG ima ges were evaluated by two reviewers and accuracy calculated, MRHG took less than 3 min, demonstrated the correct diagnosis in all with a qua lity score of diagnostic to optimal, and with excellent interobserver agreement (kappa 0.9). (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.