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Characterization of the normal and hyperplastic thymus on chemical-shift MR imaging
Koji Takahashi1, Tsutomu Inaoka, Noboru Murakami
1Department of Radiology, Asahikawa Medical College, 2-1-1-1 Midorigaoka-higashi, Asahikawa 078-8510, Japan.
AJR. American Journal of Roentgenology
|April 22, 2003
Abstract
Objective:
We designed our study to prospectively assess a potential role for chemical-shift MR imaging in identifying a thymus that has not been completely replaced by fat tissue.
Conclusion:
The thymic tissue revealed homogeneous decrease in intensity on opposed-phase MR images relative to that seen on in-phase images in 15 healthy volunteers and two patients with hyperplastic thymus. Chemical-shift MR imaging may be useful in identifying normal thymic tissue and the hyperplastic thymus in early adulthood.