Elimination of chemical shift artifacts of thoracic spine with contrast-enhanced FLAIR imaging with fat suppression at 3.0 T

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• 作者：Eleftherios Lavdas ; Panayiotis Mavroidis ; Katerina Vassiou ; Violeta Roka ; Ioannis V. Fezoulidis ; Marianna Vlychou
• 关键词：T1-weighted FLAIR sequence ; Chemical-shift artifact ; 3T MRI
• 刊名：Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• 出版年：2010
• 出版时间：December 2010
• 年：2010
• 卷：28
• 期：10
• 页码：1535-1540
• 全文大小：729 K

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The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of chemical shift artifacts and fat suppression between contrast-enhanced T1-weighted fast spin-echo (FSE) sequence with fat suppression and contrast-enhanced T1-weighted fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) sequence with fat suppression in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the thoracic spine at 3.0T. Forty patients, who underwent MRI examination, were recruited and analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively. Due to chemical shift artifacts in the T1-weighted FSE, 14 of the patients were found to be of non-diagnostic value. On the contrary, in 11 of those 14 patients, no chemical shift artifacts were observed in the T1-weighted FLAIR sequence. Regarding the efficiency of fat suppression, both sequences achieved successful fat suppression. Consequently, the use of T1-weighted FLAIR fat suppression after contrast administration sequence seems to eliminate or significantly reduce image quality deterioration stemming from chemical shift artifacts in thoracic spine examinations.