The conventional MRI examination of brachial plexus using 2D fast spin-echo sequences suffers from 1) long scan time due to a large field of view, 2) insufficient fat suppression due to strong off-resonance, 3) confusion between nerves and blood vessels. We recently presented a novel MSDE-CUBE-FLEX sequence addressing these issues by combining 1) outer volume suppression, 2) fast triple-echo Dixon technique, 3) magnitude-preparation to suppress blood signal. In this work, we compared the MSDE-CUBE-FLEX and 2D FSE sequences for imaging brachial plexus, which shows clear improvements in brachial plexus visualization with the MSDE-CUBE-FLEX sequence.
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