• Magn Reson Imaging · May 2016

    Single-breath-hold thin-slice gadoxetic acid-enhanced hepatobiliary MR imaging using a newly developed three-dimensional fast spoiled gradient-echo sequence.

    • Masatoshi Hori, Tonsok Kim, Hiromitsu Onishi, Naoyuki Takei, Tetsuya Wakayama, Makoto Sakane, Aliou Amadou Dia, Takahiro Tsuboyama, Atsushi Nakamoto, Mitsuaki Tatsumi, and Noriyuki Tomiyama.
    • Department of Radiology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine. Electronic address: mhori@radiol.med.osaka-u.ac.jp.
    • Magn Reson Imaging. 2016 May 1; 34 (4): 545-51.

    PurposeTo prospectively evaluate the efficacy of a new three-dimensional gradient-echo sequence (Turbo LAVA) that uses undersampled k-space acquisition combined with a two-dimensional parallel imaging technique for hepatobiliary MRI.Materials And MethodsSixty patients underwent T1-weighted gadoxetic acid-enhanced hepatobiliary axial MRI during a single breath-hold using both Turbo LAVA (thickness/interval=1.6/0.8mm) and conventional three-dimensional gradient-echo (4/2mm; LAVA) sequences at 3T. Axial 4-mm-thick reformation was performed from Turbo LAVA images. Portal vein-to-liver contrast (PLC), bile duct-to-liver contrast (BLC), and lesion-to-liver contrast (LLC) were compared. Two radiologists independently assessed image quality using a five-point scale. Sagittal 4-mm-thick multiplanar reconstructions (MPR) were performed from both sequences and assessed together with directly obtained 4-mm-thick sagittal LAVA images in terms of sharpness. The paired t-test was used to compare PLC, BLC, and LLC. The Wilcoxon signed rank test was used to compare five-point scales.ResultsThe mean PLC (P<0.001), BLC (P<0.001), and LLC (P<0.005) were significantly higher for Turbo LAVA than for LAVA; the scores for image noise and sharpness were inferior (P=0.000 and 0.005) and superior (0.005 and 0.157) for Turbo LAVA. There were no significant differences in the scores for bile duct visualization, artifacts, fat suppression quality, overall quality, and focal lesion conspicuity. For sagittal images, MPR Turbo LAVA showed significantly better sharpness than MPR LAVA but showed significantly worse sharpness compared with directly obtained LAVA.ConclusionHigh-spatial-resolution single-breath-hold hepatobiliary MRI using Turbo LAVA was feasible. Diagnostic-quality MPR images can be obtained using this sequence.Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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