Figure 1. Sagittal 2 mm thick images from a 47-year-old patient with a spinal cord lesion. The FAS-TSE (b) demonstrates a "frozen" aspect without pulsation artefacts in the brainstem, but a noisier image appearance (compared with the sTSE in (a)), clearly visible at the lower margin of the head coil masking the spinal lesion. The appearance of soft tissues is different, because fat saturation was applied with the FAS-TSE.