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Radiology, Vol 178, 141-144, Copyright © 1991 by Radiological Society of North America
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H Tanioka, T Shirakawa, T Machida and Y Sasaki
Department of Radiology, Kanto Rosai Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan.
The three-dimensional Fourier transform fast imaging with steady precession (FISP) technique was used to obtain high-resolution magnetic resonance (MR) images of the temporal bone region and to generate three- dimensional reconstructed images of the inner ear. The three- dimensional reconstructed images of the inner ear were directly synthesized from two-dimensional images of the temporal bone region by means of an external processing computer. With use of three-dimensional reconstructed images and stereoscopic observations, structures inside the temporal bone region and the positional relationship among them were easily recognized. These structures are difficult to demonstrate with two-dimensional images. This three-dimensional method was also shown to be useful for recognition of disease and anatomic malformations in the temporal bone region.
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