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Technical Prerequisites for Whole-Body MRI Screening

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examinations have traditionally been confined to regions of the body that are covered by the field of view of the MR imager, typically less than 50 cm in the long axis. This coverage permits imaging of an individual organ or a single body region. There are clinical situations, however, in which imaging of a larger part of the body is desirable – diagnostic evaluation of the spine or MR angiography (MRA) of the arteries of the pelvis and legs, for example. The demands are even greater when it comes to whole-body MRI screening. Screening examinations may require evaluation of the entire vascular system (whole-body MRA) or of the entire body volume (whole-body MRI). Before imaging of the entire body was possible, strategies for extending the effective imaging range first had to be devised. This was accomplished by developing multistation techniques, which involve the serial acquisition of individual body regions. The individual datasets overlap slightly and are combined to generate a composite whole-body image. Further technical advances have since enabled the acquisition of seamless three-dimensional (3D) whole-body MRI datasets using continuous table movement techniques.

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  1. Erwin L. Hahn Institute for MR Imaging, University of Duisburg-Erlangen, Arendahls Wiese 199, Essen, 45141, Germany

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Quick, H.H. (2014). Technical Prerequisites for Whole-Body MRI Screening. In: Puls, R., Hosten, N. (eds) Whole-body MRI Screening. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55201-4_3

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