Free-breathing 3D Stack of Stars GRE (StarVIBE) sequence for detecting pulmonary nodules in 18 F-FDG PET/MRI.
Nils Martin BruckmannJulian KirchnerJanna MorawitzLale UmutluWolfgang P FendlerKen HerrmannAnn-Kathrin BittnerOliver HoffmannTanja FehmMaike E LindemannChristian BuchbenderGerald AntochLino M SawickiPublished in: EJNMMI physics (2022)
The overall lung nodule detection rate of StarVIBE was slightly, but not significantly, higher than conventional T1w VIBE and significantly higher than T2w HASTE. Detectability of centrally located nodules is better with StarVIBE than with VIBE. Nevertheless, all MRI analyses demonstrated considerably lower detection rates for small lung nodules, when compared to CT.