Fast short-tau inversion-recovery MR imaging

J. L. Fleckenstein, B. T. Archer, B. A. Barker, J. T. Vaughan, R. W. Parkey, R. M. Peshock

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Abstract

To enhance the versatility of the short-tau inversion-recovery (STIR) sequences, the authors determined a range of repetition time (TR) and inversion time (TI) combinations that suppress signal intensity from fat by study of both patient and phantom images. To make fast STIR images, variations in the following pulsing conditions were studied with use of an interactive computer program: decreasing the TR, limiting the number of excitations, and limiting the number of phase-encoding steps. The authors found that (a) STIR imaging need not be time consuming, (b) fat suppression can be accomplished at shorter TR by using shorter TI, and (c) short-TR fast STIR imaging is sensitive to enhancement with gadopentetate dimeglumine.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)499-504
Number of pages6
JournalRadiology
Volume179
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 1991

Keywords

  • Magnetic resonance (MR), fat suppression
  • Magnetic resonance (MR), pulse sequences
  • Magnetic resonance (MR), rapid imaging
  • Magnetic resonance (MR), technology
  • Magnetic resonance (MR), tissue characterization

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