Peripheral nerve imaging with MRI has gained increasing attention for non-invasive detection of nerve diseases. Unfortunately, the current performance of clinical sequences (T2-weighted fast spine echo with fat saturation and other supporting sequences) in spatial resolution, fat-saturation, and nerve-vessel distinction is often insufficient to make a convincing diagnosis. We conducted a radiologic review of lumbosacral plexus images from 3D double-echo in steady state (DESS) in comparison with images from conventional sequences in our current clinical protocol. Our results demonstrate the improved nerve visualization with the DESS sequence with comparable sensitivity to pathology.
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