PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Weiss, K.L.
AU  - Richards, C.R.
AU  - Sun, D.
AU  - Weiss, J.L.
TI  - Subminute Fat-Water-Separated Dual-Echo Automated Spine Survey Iterative Scan Technique
AID  - 10.3174/ajnr.A1619
DP  - 2009 Nov 01
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG  - 1840--1846
VI  - 30
IP  - 10
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/30/10/1840.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/30/10/1840.full
SO  - Am. J. Neuroradiol.2009 Nov 01; 30
AB  - SUMMARY: We developed and tested an automated sub-minute 3D dual-echo MR imaging technique producing fat-water color-encoded labeled images of the entire spine. Twenty-one subjects were scanned with the 2-point Dixon technique utilizing 2 contiguous 21-22 second breath-hold sagittal acquisitions. Fourteen alternating subject scan sessions were achieved in 58 minutes. In all cases, fat-water separation was homogenous over the 70 cm FOV; in 2 lower stations fat/water assignments were reversed. Rapid automated fat-water decomposition spine screening is a promising technique.