Radial T2 mapping of the liver is fast and motion insensitive, which is ideal for clinical applications. Here we tested a prototype radial turbo-spin-echo sequence for T2 mapping of the liver in phantoms and in-vivo in patients. In the phantoms we compared it to conventional Cartesian multi-SE sequence and tested the effect of fat suppression by comparing fat-suppressed and fat-unsuppressed values. From the patient evaluation, comparing it to single-voxel multi-echo MRS, we proved it to be suitable for clinical applications and a promising tool for characterization of diffuse liver disorders, but there are systematic differences between different methods.
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