Fat suppression

Fat suppression is a technique in MRI imaging where fat signals from adipose tissues are suppressed to better visualise uptake of contrast materials of bodily tissues, reduce chemical shift artifact, and to characterise the type of lesions such as adrenal gland tumors, bone marrow infiltration, fatty tumors, and steatosis by determining the fat content of the tissues.[1] Fat suppression can be achieved by three techniques, namely fat saturation, inversion recovery, and opposed-phase imaging.[2]

References
  1. Chung, Mi Sun; Choi, Hyuck Jae; Kim, Mi-Hyun; Cho, Kyoung-Sik (2014). "Comparison of T2-Weighted MRI With and Without Fat Suppression for Differentiating Renal Angiomyolipomas Without Visible Fat From Other Renal Tumors". American Journal of Roentgenology. 202 (4): 765–771. doi:10.2214/AJR.13.11058. ISSN 0361-803X. PMID 24660704.
  2. Delfaut, Emmanuelle M.; Beltran, Javier; Johnson, Glyn; Rousseau, Jean; Marchandise, Xavier; Cotten, Anne (March 1999). "Fat Suppression in MR Imaging: Techniques and Pitfalls". RadioGraphics. 19 (2): 373–382. doi:10.1148/radiographics.19.2.g99mr03373. ISSN 0271-5333. PMID 10194785.
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