Evaluation of Thin-slice Coronal Single-shot Turbo Spin-echo Diffusion-weighted Imaging of the Hand: A Comparison with Conventional Echo-planar Diffusion-weighted Imaging

We prospectively evaluated thin-slice coronal turbo spin-echo (TSE) diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) covering a larger area with the recently-developed techniques on a 3T MRI scanner, compared with echo-planar imaging (EPI)-DWI in patients undergoing routine hand MRI. Visual score assessment and app...

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Autores principales: Ogawa, Masaki, Nakagawa, Motoo, Arai, Nobuyuki, Kan, Hirohito, Ohba, Shota, Shibata, Shunsuke, Maki, Hiroyuki, Shibamoto, Yuta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Japanese Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2019
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Technical Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7809136/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31645537
http://dx.doi.org/10.2463/mrms.tn-2019-0115
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Sumario:We prospectively evaluated thin-slice coronal turbo spin-echo (TSE) diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) covering a larger area with the recently-developed techniques on a 3T MRI scanner, compared with echo-planar imaging (EPI)-DWI in patients undergoing routine hand MRI. Visual score assessment and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) measurement were performed for patients with suspected hand tumors. TSE-DWI was superior to EPI-DWI, with less image distortion. The visual score and ADC comparison assessments proved that the image noise of TSE-DWI was acceptable.

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