Abstract #1423

DANTE-SPACE-based imaging of the brachial plexus

Xiaoyong Zhang¹, Liqi Yang², Guijin Li³, Yan Li², Bei Li², Yi Sun⁴, Chenhui Li³, John Grinstead ⁵, Guoxi Xie⁶, and Xin Liu⁷

¹MR Collaborations, Siemens Healthcare Ltd., Shenzhen, China, ²BGI, Shenzhen, China, ³Siemens Healthcare Ltd., Guangzhou, China, ⁴MR Collaborations, Siemens Healthcare Ltd., Shanghai, China, ⁵Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, Germany, ⁶Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Basic Sciences, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China, ⁷Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Shenzhen, China

Magnetic resonance neurography (MRN) has been increasingly used to evaluate brachial plexopathy. However, MRN is limited by the lack of relative contrast between nerves and their surrounding tissues. As an alternative to MRN, T2-SPACE has been proposed as a black-blood technique that permits more direct visualization of the brachial plexus; however, it has similar limitations. A preliminary study demonstrated that T2-weighted DANTE-SPACE outperformed SPACE and might be a potential alternative for the visualization of the brachial plexus. In this study, we hypothesized that T2-weighted DANTE-SPACE would address the above issue due to its superior blood flow suppression.

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