Heavily T1-weighted images without respiratory artifacts: Partial angle inversion recovery fast spin-echo imaging (PAIR-FSE)

Authors
Kawamitsu, H Sugimura, K Van Cauteren, M
Citation
H. Kawamitsu et al., Heavily T1-weighted images without respiratory artifacts: Partial angle inversion recovery fast spin-echo imaging (PAIR-FSE), J MAGN R I, 12(6), 2000, pp. 960-964
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Radiology ,Nuclear Medicine & Imaging
Journal title
JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
ISSN journal
10531807 → ACNP
Volume
12
Issue
6
Year of publication
2000
Pages
960 - 964
Database
ISI
SICI code
1053-1807(200012)12:6<960:HTIWRA>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
We obtained T1-weighted images in the abdominal region using the partial an gle inversion recovery fast spin echo (PAIR-FSE) with the respiratory trigg ering (RT) method and compared the image quality with that of conventional SE (TR/TE 500/10 msec) with the partial angle inversion recovery (PEAR) met hod. The signal difference to noise ratio of the PAIR-FSE was 1.6 times hig her (6.94 +/- 3.08) than that of SE (4.30 +/- 1.88). Respiratory motion-ind uced ghost artifacts were reduced by half in PAIR-FSE with RT (1.01 +/- 0.4 7) in comparison with SE with PEAR (2.24 +/- 0.70). (C) 2000 Wiley-Liss, In c.