Fat suppression with short inversion time inversion-recovery and
chemical-shift selective saturation: a dual STIR-CHESS combination prepulse for turbo spin echo pulse sequences.
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The CSI signal loss can be measured quantitatively, as the adrenal-to-spleen chemical-shift ratio, by dividing the lesion-to-spleen signal intensity ratios on the IP images by the OOP images.
Distinction between benign and malignant adrenal masses: Value of T1-weighted chemical-shift MR imaging.
Combined late gadolinium-enhanced and double-echo
chemical-shift MRI help to differentiate renal oncocytomas with high central T2 signal intensity from renal cell carcinomas.
Intracranial
chemical-shift artifacts on MR images of the brain: observations and relation to sampling bandwidth.
Second, the cohort included eight cases of thymic hyperplasia with diagnosis obtained through histology in four cases and
chemical-shift magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the remaining cases.
At MR, intracellular lipid can be detected using
chemical-shift imaging (CSI), which takes advantage of the differing resonant frequencies of protons in lipid and water molecules.
Characterization of the normal and hyperplastic thymus on
chemical-shift MR imaging.