Radiology
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Submit a response
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when eLetters are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Tamler, B
Right arrow Articles by Schneider, E
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Tamler, B
Right arrow Articles by Schneider, E

Radiology, Vol 179, 43-47, Copyright © 1991 by Radiological Society of North America

ARTICLES

Prostatic MR imaging performed with the three-point Dixon technique. Work in progress

B Tamler, FG Sommer, GH Glover and E Schneider
Department of Radiation Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

The three-point Dixon technique is an enhancement of the original Dixon method for the creation of water- and fat-proton magnetic resonance (MR) images. With the three-point Dixon technique, three measurements of phase shift at 0, pi, and -pi between the fat and water resonances are employed. Compensation for B0 inhomogeneity leads to an error-free decomposition into water- and fat-proton images; an accurate B0 map is also created. The lack of chemical shift artifact in the water- and fat- selective MR images permits the application of narrow receive bandwidth for the creation of T2-weighted images with a high signal-to-noise ratio. The technique was applied in vivo with four healthy subjects, seven patients with prostatic carcinoma, and one patient with benign prostatic hypertrophy and compared with conventional T2-weighted imaging. The three-point technique yielded images with improved definition of normal intraprostatic structures and zonal anatomy and, in some cases of prostatic carcinoma, provided better visualization of extraprostatic spread of tumor.


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Am. J. Roentgenol.Home page
F. J. Rybicki, T. Chung, J. Reid, D. Jaramillo, R. V. Mulkern, and J. Ma
Fast Three-Point Dixon MR Imaging Using Low-Resolution Images for Phase Correction: A Comparison with Chemical Shift Selective Fat Suppression for Pediatric Musculoskeletal Imaging
Am. J. Roentgenol., November 1, 2001; 177(5): 1019 - 1023.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Am. J. Neuroradiol.Home page
F. J. Rybicki, R. V. Mulkern, R. L. Robertson, C. D. Robson, T. Chung, and J. Ma
Fast Three-Point Dixon MR Imaging of the Retrobulbar Space with Low-Resolution Images for Phase Correction: Comparison with Fast Spin-Echo Inversion Recovery Imaging
AJNR Am. J. Neuroradiol., October 1, 2001; 22(9): 1798 - 1802.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]


HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
RADIOLOGY RADIOGRAPHICS RSNA JOURNALS ONLINE
Copyright © 1991 by the Radiological Society of North America.