Yoshifumi Noda, Masashi Asano, Nobuyuki Kawai, Tetsuro Kaga, Kimihiro Kajita, Johannes M Peeters, Yu Ueda, Masatoshi Honda, Yukiko Takai, Akio Ito, Fuminori Hyodo, Hiroki Kato, Masayuki Matsuo
PURPOSE: To evaluate the feasibility of a free-breathing sequence (4D FreeBreathing) combined with Compressed SENSE in dynamic contrast-enhanced pancreatic MRI and compare it with a breath-holding sequence (eTHRIVE). METHOD: Patients who underwent pancreatic MRI, either eTHRIVE or 4D FreeBreathing, from April 2022 to November 2023 were included in this retrospective study. Two radiologists, who were unaware of the scan sequence, independently and randomly reviewed the images at the precontrast, pancreatic, portal venous, and equilibrium phases and assigned confidence scores for motion and streaking artifacts, pancreatic sharpness, and overall image quality using a 5-point scale...
March 24, 2024: European Journal of Radiology