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  • Title: Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography using T2 preparation pulse: quantitative and qualitative analyses.
    Author: Ihara R, Oura D, Ichimura W, Kobayashi K.
    Journal: Acta Radiol; 2023 Dec; 64(12):2969-2976. PubMed ID: 37807657.
    Abstract:
    BACKGROUND: Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) may exhibit ghosting and blurring artifacts due to irregular breathing cycles, which can be overcome by shortening the shot duration. T2 preparation pulse enables heavy T2 contrast even with a shorter TE by use of the shortened shot duration; therefore, a technique using T2 preparation pulse combined with 3D turbo spin-echo MRCP (TPT-MRCP) was constructed. PURPOSE: To evaluate the clinical usefulness of TPT-MRCP in both navigation and breath-hold sequences compared to the conventional method. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We obtained navigation MRCP, which were TPT and conventional 3D turbo spin-echo in 37 patients, and breath-hold MRCP in 31 patients, which were TPT and gradient and spin echo. The quantitative evaluation included signal-to-noise ratio, contrast ratio, contrast-to-noise ratio and sharpness of the common bile duct in all sequences. Two radiologists visually evaluated image quality using a five-point grading method, assessing overall image quality and each of the six areas: common bile duct, right hepatic duct, left hepatic duct, main pancreatic duct, cystic duct and motion artifact. RESULTS: TPT-MRCP was significantly superior to conventional MRCP in all quantitative evaluations, except for signal-to-noise ratio in the navigation sequence. In the visual evaluation, TPT-MRCP provided higher image quality than the conventional technique in nearly all areas. The kappa (k) coefficient of the overall image quality was good for all sequences (κ = 0.61-0.8). CONCLUSION: TPT-MRCP provides higher image quality than conventional techniques in both navigation and breath-hold sequences. The present study demonstrates the greater clinical usefulness of TPT-MRCP.
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