Relationship between the degree of abdominal wall movement and the image quality of contrast-enhanced MRI: semi-quantitative study especially focused on the occurrence of transient severe motion artifact.

Hiroshi IkenoSatoshi KobayashiKazuto KozakaTakahiro OgiDai InoueNorihide YonedaKotaro YoshidaNaoki OhnoToshifumi GabataAzusa Kitao

Published in: Japanese journal of radiology (2019)

Image quality is highly correlated with abdominal movement. Moreover, artifact in arterial phase was not observed in NAM, which indicated abdominal movement is the direct cause of artifact.

Keyphrases

image quality
contrast enhanced
computed tomography
dual energy
diffusion weighted
magnetic resonance imaging
diffusion weighted imaging
magnetic resonance
risk assessment
early onset
high resolution
blood brain barrier
subarachnoid hemorrhage