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First published online August 6, 2007
British Journal of Radiology (2007) 80, 668-673
© 2007 British Institute of Radiology
doi: 10.1259/bjr/88996134
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Clinical evaluation of a speed optimized T2 weighted fast spin echo sequence at 3.0 T using variable flip angle refocusing, half-Fourier acquisition and parallel imaging

G Lutterbey, MD 1 M P Wattjes, MD 1 J Kandyba, MD 1 M Harzheim, MD 2 M V Falkenhausen, MD 1 N Morakkabati, MD 1 H Schild, MD 1 and J Gieseke, PhD 3

1 Department of Radiology, 2 Department of Neurology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, 53105 Bonn, Germany, 3 Philips Medical Systems, Best, the Netherlands


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  		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.

 

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  		Figure 2. These enlarged images from a 38-year-old female patient with a high periventricular lesion load display a similar contrast ((a) sTSE; (b) FAS-TSE) of grey and white matter, lesions and surrounding oedema.

 

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  		Figure 3. This example taken from a 21-year-old male patient suffering from a facial tic demonstrates the effect of unintended patient motion in the sTSE (a) compared with the FAS-TSE (b).

 




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