BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE T1-weighted spin-echo imaging has been widely used to study anatomic detail and abnormalities of the brain; however, the image contrast of this technique is often poor, especially at low field strengths. We tested a new pulse sequence, T1-weighted fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR), which provides good contrast between lesions, surrounding edematous tissue, and n...

PURPOSE To compare image contrast and lesion conspicuity of enhancing intracranial lesions obtained with T1-weighted and magnetization transfer T1-weighted spin-echo sequences after administration of standard (0.1 mmol/kg body weight) and triple doses of gadobutrol. METHODS Twenty-four patients with a total of 34 enhancing intracranial lesions were studied with T1-weighted and magnetization t...

background: intervertebral disc herniation has two common types, extrusion and protrusion, which may affect the adjacent vertebrae.in addition, it is associated with significant signal changes in t1 mri (short tr/te) and t2 mri (long tr/te).   methods: the present study is a cross-sectional analytic one, in which sampling was performed retrospectively. cases were randomly selected from the pati...

background :inversion recovery (ir) pulse sequences can generate t1-weighted images with a different range of inversion time (ti) to suppress or null the signal intensity (si) for a specified tissue. in this study, we aimed to investigate the effect of ti values on the concentration of the contrast agent, which leads to a minimum signal intensity, using an inversion recovery t1-weighted 3-dimen...

  Background: Intervertebral disc herniation has two common types, extrusion and protrusion, which may affect the adjacent vertebrae.In addition, it is associated with significant signal changes in T1 MRI (short TR/TE) and T2 MRI (long TR/TE).   Methods: The present study is a cross-sectional analytic one, in which sampling was performed retrospectively. Cases were randomly selected from the pa...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate a magnetization prepared-rapid gradient-echo (MP-RAGE) sequence as a three-dimensional T1-weighted MR imaging technique for staging urinary bladder cancer and to compare this technique with a commonly used two-dimensional T1-weighted spin-echo sequence technique. SUBJECTS AND METHODS For 28 consecutive patients with urinary bladder cancer, M...

Purpose: To investigate whether MS atrophy can be assessed by SIENA and SIENAX software using other image types from MS research protocols than T1-weighted images without contrast agent, which are not always available. Method: We selected 46 MS patients with identical MRI protocols at two timepoints. We calculated normalized brain volume (NBV) using SIENAX, and percentage brain volume change (P...

PURPOSE To optimize a T1-weighted fast fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) sequence using computer-simulated data and to study its clinical utility for imaging the spine. METHODS Relative signal intensities and contrast of relevant normal and pathologic tissues in the spine were computed using an inversion recovery equation modified to account for a hybrid RARE (rapid acquisition with...

PURPOSE Nasopharyngeal inflammatory pseudotumor (NIPT) is hard to differentiate from infiltrating nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) on conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The purpose of this study is to determine whether discrepant lesion sizes estimated on T1- and fat-suppressed T2-weighted images can help distinguish between NIPT and NPC. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed MRI data...