Fat Suppressed FSE Pelvic MR Imaging with Two New FSE Based Dixon Pulse Sequences: A Comparison of IDEAL FSE and FSE Triple Echo Dixon
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Background: Fat suppressed FSE T2-weighted imaging is an integral part of an MR pelvic examination. However, fat suppression by conventional technique can be degraded by inhomogeneities of the magnetic field. The problem can be exacerbated when a typical large FOV is used for abdominal and pelvic imaging. Techniques that provide fat-suppressed T2-weighted imaging that is insensitive to field inhomogeneity would be clinically useful for pelvic MR imaging. In this work we report our initial clinical evaluation on the performance of two new FSE-based Dixon pulse sequences that generate water-only and fat-only images:
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