Evaluation of MR cisternography of the cerebellopontine angle using a balanced fast-field-echo sequence: preliminary findings

被引：52

作者：

Tsuchiya, K ^{[1
]}

Aoki, C ^{[1
]}

Hachiya, J ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Kyorin Univ, Sch Med, Dept Radiol, Tokyo 1818611, Japan

来源：

EUROPEAN RADIOLOGY | 2004年 / 14卷 / 02期

关键词：

MR imaging; cisternography; acoustic schwannoma; neurovascular compression;

D O I：

10.1007/s00330-003-2074-6

中图分类号：

R8 [特种医学]; R445 [影像诊断学];

学科分类号：

1002 [临床医学]; 100207 [影像医学与核医学]; 1009 [特种医学];

摘要：

We evaluated the feasibility of MR cisternography by the balanced fast-field-echo (bFFE) sequence, comparing with that by a turbo-spin-echo (TSE) sequence, for cerebellopontine angle lesions on a 1.5-T imager (Gyroscan Intera, Philips, Best, The Netherlands). The bFFE MR cisternograms depicted target cranial nerves with less cerebrospinal fluid pulsation artifacts than TSE cisternograms and visualized an acoustic schwannoma in 6 of 44 patients with suspicion and a causative vessel of hemifacial spasm in all of 3 patients in a short scanning time (1 min 53 s). The bFFE sequence can be promising for MR cisternography in the diagnosis of cerebellopontine angle lesions.

引用

页码：239 / 242

页数：4

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