The Application of Fat-Suppression MR Pulse Sequence in the Diagnosis of Bone-Joint Disease

Jing Wu, Ling-Quan Lu, Jian-Ping Gu, Xin-Dao Yin

Department of Radiology, Nanjing Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.

DOI: 10.4236/ijmpcero.2012.13012                

Abstract

Fat-suppression technology of magnetic resonance is very important in clinical practice.This article is written to interpret the principle, advantages/disadvantages and clinical applications of some regular fat-suppression sequences in the diagnosis of Bone-Joint Disease, including 1) frequency-selective saturation (FS); 2) short-TI inversion recovery (STI-R); 3)frequency selective inversion pulse; 4) fat suppression water or fat selective excitation technique; 5) Dixon technology and 6) magnetization transfer contrast (MTI).

Keywords

Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Fat Suppression Sequences; Bone Joint

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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