Renwang PU1, Qingwei SONG1, Ailian LIU1, Zijing ZHANG1, Nan ZHANG1, Haonan ZHANG1, Bingbing GAO1, Lihua CHEN1, and Liangjie LIN2
1the First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical Universityrsity, Dalian, China, 2Philips Healthcare, BEIJING, China
The 3D-NerveVIEW sequence with suppression of lipid
and blood signals and a long echo time can obtain high-quality images for
visualization of brachial plexus, while the long scan time may limit its
clinical application. Compressed SENSE (CS) is a newly developed technique in
MRI that enables accelerated acquisition with maintained image quality. By
comparing results of 3D-NerveVIEW for brachial plexus imaging with acceleration
by the conventional SENSE and the advanced CS with different acceleration
factors. We found that the 3D-NerveVIEW for brachial plexus imaging with a CS
acceleration factor of 4 can obtained favorable images within significantly
reduced scan time.
