TITLE:
The Application of Fat-Suppression MR Pulse Sequence in the Diagnosis of Bone-Joint Disease
AUTHORS:
Jing Wu, Ling-Quan Lu, Jian-Ping Gu, Xin-Dao Yin
KEYWORDS:
Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Fat Suppression Sequences; Bone Joint
JOURNAL NAME:
International Journal of Medical Physics, Clinical Engineering and Radiation Oncology,
Vol.1 No.3,
November
28,
2012
ABSTRACT: Fat-suppression technology of magnetic resonance is very important in clinical practice.This article is written to interpret the principle, advantages/disadvantages and clinical applications of some regular fat-suppression sequences in the diagnosis of Bone-Joint Disease, including 1) frequency-selective saturation (FS); 2) short-TI inversion recovery (STI-R); 3)frequency selective inversion pulse; 4) fat suppression water or fat selective excitation technique; 5) Dixon technology and 6) magnetization transfer contrast (MTI).