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

✍ Scribed by Hideaki Kawamitsu; Kazuro Sugimura; Marc Van Cauteren

• Book ID: 101382614
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 212 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1053-1807
• DOI: 10.1002/1522-2586(200012)12:6<960::aid-jmri22>3.0.co;2-j

✦ Synopsis

We obtained T1-weighted images in the abdominal region using the partial angle inversion recovery fast spin echo (PAIR-FSE) with the respiratory triggering (RT) method and compared the image quality with that of conventional SE (TR/TE 500/10 msec) with the partial angle inversion recovery (PEAR) method. The signal difference to noise ratio of the PAIR-FSE was 1.6 times higher (6.94 +/- 3.08) than that of SE (4.30 +/- 1.88). Respiratory motion-induced ghost artifacts were reduced by half in PAIR-FSE with RT (1.01 +/- 0.47) in comparison with SE with PEAR (2.24 +/- 0.70). J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2000;12:960-964.