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Keywords:

Adolescent, Brain Diseases, Cerebral Ventricles, Child, Child, Preschool, Female, Humans, Image Enhancement, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Leukomalacia, Periventricular, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Sensitivity and Specificity, Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Clinical Neurology, Neuroimaging, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging, Neurosciences & Neurology, magnetic resonance imaging, white matter diseases, children, pulse sequences, ATTENUATED INVERSION-RECOVERY, INITIAL CLINICAL-EXPERIENCE, PULSE SEQUENCE, MULTIPLE-SCLEROSIS, SPIN-ECHO, BRAIN, 1103 Clinical Sciences, 1109 Neurosciences, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging, 3202 Clinical sciences, 3209 Neurosciences

Abstract:

We compared a fast fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) pulse sequence with a dual-echo short tau fast inversion-recovery (DESTTIR) sequence in 20 children with white matter abnormalities. Although the overall image quality of DESTTIR images was better, the lesion-to-background contrast was significantly higher with the fast FLAIR pulse sequence and lesion detection was more accurate.