Balanced Turbo Field Echo with Extended k-space Sampling: A Fast Technique for the Thoracic Ductography

Takakiyo NOMURA; Tetsu NIWA; Toshiki KAZAMA; Tatsuya SEKIGUCHI; Takashi OKAZAKI; Shuhei SHIBUKAWA; Hiroaki NISHIO; Makoto OBARA; Yutaka IMAI

doi:10.2463/mrms.tn.2015-0111

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Balanced Turbo Field Echo with Extended k-space Sampling: A Fast Technique for the Thoracic Ductography

Takakiyo NOMURA, Tetsu NIWA, Toshiki KAZAMA, Tatsuya SEKIGUCHI, Takashi OKAZAKI, Shuhei SHIBUKAWA, Hiroaki NISHIO, Makoto OBARA, Yutaka IMAI

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Keywords: thoracic duct, magnetic resonance imaging, 3D balanced turbo field echo, real reconstruction

JOURNAL OPEN ACCESS

2016 Volume 15 Issue 4 Pages 405-410

DOI https://doi.org/10.2463/mrms.tn.2015-0111

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Abstract

We evaluated the visibility of the thoracic duct by fast balanced turbo field echo with extended k-space sampling (bTFEe). The thoracic duct of 10 healthy volunteers was scanned by bTFEe using a 1.5-T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which was acquired in approximately 2 minutes. Three-dimensional (3D) turbo spin-echo (TSE) was obtained for comparison. The thoracic duct including draining location of the venous system was overall well visualized on bTFEe, compared to TSE.

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