Parameter Balanced gradient echo sequence (FIESTA, true FISP, SBSSFP) T2 half-Fourier sequence (HASTE) T1 3D FS gradient echo sequence DWI Axial Coronal/sagittal Axial/axial BFS Coronal/sagittal Axial/sagittal Axial/sagittal Repetition time/echo time…
Fig. 2.1 Displaced bowel loops in pregnant patients. Left: A 19-week pregnant patient with Crohn’s disease. The sigmoid colon (arrow) is displaced by the pregnancy upward and to the left….
Fig. 18.1 Routine non-contrast MR sequences in the evaluation of abdominal and pelvic pain in the pregnant patient. Example of axial T2-weighted single-shot echo train spin echo image (a) demonstrates…
Localizer T2 SSFSE T2 2D SSFSE T2 2D SSFSE T2 2D FS FSE T1 2D SPGR Dixon DWI b50, 600 T1 3D SPGR FS Plane of acquisition Axial, coronal,…
Fig. 1.1 Placenta percreta in a 28-year-old pregnant woman at 34 weeks’ gestation. Sagittal T2-FSE (a) and coronal T2-weighted HASTE images (b) show the bulging of the placenta (arrows) that…
Fig. 24.1 Pubic osteitis in a 32-year-old woman at 20 weeks of gestational age, with recurrent pubic pain. Coronal (a) and axial STIR (b) and coronal (c) and axial (d)…
Fig. 12.1 Thick slab magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Sonographic assessment of the head of the left twin is difficult due to his position and the position of the right twin…
Fig. 17.1 This 37-year-old woman G3P2 presented at 24 weeks’ gestation with increasing shortness of breath. Coronal gated spin echo (a) and (b) axial cine gated gradient echo images demonstrated…
Fig. 5.1 Giant cervical lymphangioma. Coronal (a), sagittal (b), and axial (c) HASTE MR images demonstrate a large anterior multicystic neck mass (arrow), with no compression to the airways in…
Fig. 25.1 Hemoperitoneum. (a) Axial T1-weighted gradient recalled echo image with fat saturation, (b) sagittal T2-weighted single shot turbo spin echo, and (c) axial T2-weighted turbo spin echo with fat…
