Abstract #1030
Assessment of High Spatial Resolution 3D T2W Fat Nulled Images: a Comparison with 2D T2W Fat Sat Images
Martin D Pickles 1 , Daniel Litwiller 2 , and Lindsay W Turnbull 1
1
Centre for Magnetic Resonance
Investigations, HYMS at University of Hull, Hull, East
Yorkshire, United Kingdom,
2
Global
MR Applications and Workflow, GE Healthcare, Rochester,
MN, United States
Further improvements in the specificity of MR breast are
required. Recently, a 3D FSE T2W modified 3-point DIXON
technique (CUBE-IDEAL) became available. The purpose of
this work is to evaluate CUBE-IDEAL and compare against
traditional 2D T2W FSE fat saturated images. Sixty-nine
patients were imaged on a 3.0T scanner. The results of
this assessment suggest a similar level of performance
overall. However, a number of key points should be
underscored. Firstly, CUBE-IDEAL did outperform FSE at
fat nulling. Secondly, CUBE-IDEAL can be reformatted
into any plane. Thirdly, CUBE-IDEAL presents a time
saving over the traditional FSE sequence.
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