Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences
Online ISSN : 1880-2206
Print ISSN : 1347-3182
ISSN-L : 1347-3182
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Renal Corticomedullary Differentiation by Non-contrast-enhanced MR Imaging with a Spatially Selective IR Pulse at Various Inversion Times: Comparison with Fast Asymmetric Spin Echo (FASE) and Steady-state Free-precession (SSFP)
Akihiko KANKI , Katsuyoshi ITO, Tsutomu TAMADA, Yasufumi NODA, Akira YAMAMOTO, Atsushi HIGAKI, Tomohiro SATO, Kazuya YASOKAWA, Toshinori ABE, Koji YOSHIDA
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Keywords: corticomedullary differentiation, fast asymmetric spin echo (FASE), kidney, spatially selective IR pulse, steady-state free precession (SSFP)
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2014 Volume 13 Issue 2 Pages 127-131

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Abstract

We compared visualization of corticomedullary differentiation between fast asymmetric spin echo (FASE) and steady-state free precession (SSFP) combined with spatially selective inversion recovery (IR) pulse and optimal inversion time (TI). Though the corticomedullary contrast ratio was higher in FASE than SSFP images, visualization of corticomedullary differentiation was significantly better in SSFP images than FASE images obtained with spatially selective IR pulses and optimal TI.

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