Comparison of image quality and depiction of microscopic fat at 2-D and 3-D T1-Weighted (T1W) chemical shift (dual-echo) MRI for evaluation of adrenal adenomas.
Hana AlfalehGerd MelkusKhalid Alo NasiyabiMatthew D F McInnesNicola SchiedaPublished in: Abdominal radiology (New York) (2022)
2-D CSI has subjectively higher image quality and shows more signal intensity loss from microscopic fat in adrenal adenomas compared to 10° flip angle 3-D-CSI. Increasing the 3-D flip angle to 18° more closely matches depiction of microscopic fat to 2-D-CSI at 1.5 T.