abdomen — Clinical MRI

MR-Guided Biopsies of the Prostate in Supine Patient Position

April 28, 2016 by Florian Schneider, M.D.

The article shows that targeted biopsies of the prostate under direct MRI-guidance are a reasonable complement to ultrasound biopsy techniques. The presented cases show that exact targeting of the most suspicious portion of a tumor is crucial for correct classification and consequently best therapy decisions. Especially in case of relatively small lesions, direct MR-guidance has clear advantages over fusion techniques. [...]

Filed Under: abdomen, Clinical Imaging, Clinical Methods & Techniques, Clinical Updates, New Technologies & Advances, pelvis
Tagged With: prostate, T2-weighed

Case Series: Utilization of the Pediatric 16 Coil for 1.5T and 3T Systems

February 3, 2017 by Bac Nguyen, RT

In this article we share some of our experiences over the last few years with MR upgrades. [...]

Filed Under: abdomen, Anatomic Regions, bones, brain, Clinical Imaging, Clinical Updates, heart, Software & Hardware Updates, spine
Tagged With: abdomen, bones, brain, heart, spine

Right renal angiomyolipoma

August 8, 2014 by Tao Ai MD, PhD

Clinical History: 59-year old woman with right lower back pain for more than one year Diagnosis: Right renal angiomyolipoma MR Technique: Upper abdominal imaging was performed on a 3T MR system. (A, B) Axial T1-weighted VIBE in- and out-of-phase (TR/TE 3.88/1.27ms), and (C) axial FS T2-weighted TSE (TR/TE 5814/78ms, with respiratory triggering) scans […] [...]

Filed Under: abdomen, Anatomic Regions, Cases, Clinical Imaging, kidneys, Meet The Experts, Xiaoming Li
Tagged With: 3T, abdomen, DCE MRI, kidney, tumor

MAGNETOM Aera – Combining Throughput and Highest Quality MRI in an Optimized Clinical Workflow

March 6, 2014 by MRI

This paper shows how the simultaneous use of multipurpose loop coils in MRI allows high-resolution musculoskeletal studies with increased contrast and specificity for assessing muscles, tendons, ligaments, joints, and cartilage. Dr. Ferrer presents a number of different daily patient routine examinations, including specifically evaluation of the carpal bones, the thumb metacarpals, the metacarpals, the distal inter-phalangeal joints, the elbow and ankle. [...]

Filed Under: abdomen, Anatomic Regions, brain, Clinical Imaging, Clinical Methods & Techniques, the joints
Tagged With: abdomen, brain, musculoskeletal system

Hepatic Hemangioma

July 6, 2013 by Dr Hakimelahi, MD

A 55 year old woman with an incidental finding on an MRI of the thoracic spine. [...]

Filed Under: abdomen, Cases, Clinical Imaging, liver, Meet The Experts, Val M. Runge
Tagged With: Benign Hepatic Mass, liver, liver mass

Hepatocellular Carcinoma-2

July 6, 2013 by Miguel Trelles, MD

This 54 year old woman presented to the gastroenterology clinic complaining of abdominal pain. A right upper quadrant ultrasound was performed demonstrating an ill-defined hypoechoic hepatic mass. MRI was recommended for further evaluation. [...]

Filed Under: abdomen, Cases, Clinical Imaging, liver, Meet The Experts, Val M. Runge
Tagged With: liver, liver mass, malignant hepatic tumor

Subcapsular/extracapsular hematoma

July 6, 2013 by J. Ryan Mikus, MD, MS

This is a 54-year-old Caucasian male with a past medical history of polymyositis and recent outside hospital admission for biliary tree obstruction with subsequent ERCP, cholecystectomy, and liver biopsy. He was admitted to our institution with elevated LFTs and abdominal pain. [...]

Filed Under: abdomen, Cases, Clinical Imaging, liver, Meet The Experts, Val M. Runge
Tagged With: liver

Multiple Arterial Stenoses

July 6, 2013 by Ulrike Attenberger, MD

This 63-year-old man presented with a longstanding history of peripheral arterial occlusive disease, hypertension, diabetes, coronary artery disease, prior myocardial infarction, crossover bypass, and renal artery stenosis with increasing leg pain. [...]

Filed Under: abdomen, Anatomic Regions, arteries in the abdomen/pelvis, arteries in the legs, Cases, Clinical Imaging, Meet The Experts, pelvis, Stefan Schönberg
Tagged With: Contrast enhanced MRA, dynamic contrast enhanced MRI, MRA, Peripheral MRA

Two liver lesions – hemangioma and focal nodular hyperplasia

July 6, 2013 by Raghuram K. Rao, MD, MPH

This is a 38 year old female who had a CT performed for nonrelated reasons, but had incidentally detected liver masses. An MRI was ordered for further workup. [...]

Filed Under: abdomen, Cases, Clinical Imaging, liver, Meet The Experts, Val M. Runge
Tagged With: Benign Hepatic Mass, liver, liver mass

Fat Suppression in the Abdomen

July 6, 2013 by MRI

Due to the different chemical environment, hydrogen nuclei in water- and in fat-tissue have different values for some MRI-relevant parameters, mainly being the relaxation time and the resonance frequency (chemical shift). These differences can be used to selectively suppress/reduce the signal of fat bound protons.Thus relaxation-dependant and chemical shift-dependant methods can be used for fat suppression. [...]

Filed Under: abdomen, Clinical Imaging, Clinical Methods & Techniques, Software & Hardware Updates
Tagged With: fat suppression, upper abdomen

Spectral Adiabatic Inversion Recovery (SPAIR) MR imaging of the Abdomen

July 6, 2013 by Thomas C. Lauenstein

SPAIR (Spectral Adiabatic Inversion Recovery) is a powerful technique for fat suppression which offers advantages over conventional fat suppression techniques. The technique is insensitive to B1 inhomogenities and only fat spins are suppressed/inverted. [...]

Filed Under: abdomen, Anatomic Regions, Clinical Imaging, Software & Hardware Updates
Tagged With: fat suppression, liver, upper abdomen

Revisiting Liver Imaging with VIBE

July 5, 2013 by Vamsi Narra, MD

Volume Interpolated Breath-hold Examination (VIBE) offers three-dimensional multiphase image acquisition before and following contrast administration on a breath-hold time scale. The dynamic behavior of liver lesions and structures during the precontrast, arterial, portal venous, early equilibrium and 5-minute delayed equilibrium phases of enhancement allows more accurate characterization than static pre- and postcontrast analysis. [...]

Filed Under: abdomen, Anatomic Regions, Clinical Imaging, liver, Software & Hardware Updates
Tagged With: breathhold, dynamic contrast enhanced MRI, fat suppression, liver, upper abdomen, VIBE

Detection and Characterization of Focal Liver Lesions using Respiratory-Triggered Diffusion- Weighted MR Imaging (DWI)

July 5, 2013 by Konstantin Holzapfel

Due to a number of technical challenges, the use of DWI was initially confined to the brain with its low incidence of movement artifacts and the high homogeneity and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of brain tissue. Physiological motion artifacts (e.g. motility of the bowel, cardiac pulsation, respiratory motions) and the heterogeneous composition of many extracranial organs had precluded the application of DWI in body imaging until a series of technologic advances such as the development of echo-planar imaging (EPI), high-gradient amplitudes, multichannel coils and parallel imaging techniques enabled the acquisition of high quality diffusion-weighted images of the body. [...]

Filed Under: abdomen, Anatomic Regions, Clinical Imaging, Software & Hardware Updates, whole body
Tagged With: diffusion, whole body MR

Large FOV Imaging at 3T with a 32-Channel Body Array Coil

July 5, 2013 by Yutaka Natsuaki, Ph.D.

This article shows the benefits of a 32-channel body coil for large field-of-view imaging in the abdomen and pelvis, including MR Angiography. The evolution of parallel imaging techniques has been very rapid, with realization of their full potential requiring development and utilization of MR systems with up to 32 receiver channels. [...]

Filed Under: abdomen, Clinical Imaging, pelvis, Software & Hardware Updates
Tagged With: Contrast enhanced MRA, DIXON, FLASH, liver, multichannel coil