====== Dixon method ======


The Dixon [[method]] is an [[Magnetic resonance imaging Sequence]] based on chemical shift and designed to achieve uniform fat suppression. It has been gaining popularity as it has some advantages over other fat suppression techniques, namely: 

suppression of fat signal is more uniform and less affected by artifacts than many other techniques
can be combined with a variety of sequence types (e.g. spin echo, gradient echo, and steady state free procession sequences)
can be combined with a variety of weightings (e.g. T1, T2 and proton density)
provides images with and without fat suppression from a single acquisition
not only shows presence of microscopic fat but it can also quantify the amount of fat