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Balanced steady state-free precession (b-SSFP) imaging for MRCP: techniques and applications
James F Glockner1, Christine U Lee
1Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, 55905, Rochester, MN, USA, glockner.james@mayo.edu.
Abstract:
Balanced steady state-free precession (b-SSFP) pulse sequences have a number of properties which can be useful in magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP), including short acquisition times, high signal-to-noise ratios, and T2/T1 contrast weighting. The utility and versatility of b-SSFP sequences for MRCP imaging are probably underappreciated, and this pictorial essay briefly discusses benefits and limitations of 2D and 3D b-SSFP techniques used in place of or in addition to conventional single-shot fast spin echo or 3D fast spin echo acquisitions and illustrates their appearance in several clinical cases.
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