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.

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.
Magn Reson Med Sci. 2019 Oct 24;:
Authors: Ogawa M, Nakagawa M, Arai N, Kan H, Ohba S, Shibata S, Maki H, Shibamoto Y
Abstract
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.
PMID: 31645537 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences : MRMS - October 23, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Ogawa M, Nakagawa M, Arai N, Kan H, Ohba S, Shibata S, Maki H, Shibamoto Y Tags: Magn Reson Med Sci Source Type: research