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Water-suppression MRI: role in the evaluation of osseous lesions
L J Wolansky1, V Rajaraman, C Lum
1Department of Radiology, UMDNJ New Jersey Medical School, Newark 07103, USA.
Clinical Imaging
|February 9, 2000
Abstract:
The efficacy of chemical shift based water-suppression MRI in the evaluation of bone marrow lesions has not been previously reported. T1-weighted images without and with water suppression were compared in five patients with 16 lesions. There was a significant improvement in the contrast-to-noise ratio (from 4.32 to 5.95, P < 0.01) and contrast ratio (from 1.71 to 5.69, P < 0.004) with water suppression. Water suppression may be useful clinically by increasing the conspicuity of bone marrow lesions.