Preliminary work has demonstrated that dynamic contrast material-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging improves the detection sensitivity for pituitary microadenomas. The authors present a new method of obtaining dynamic contrast-enhanced pituitary images with a short TR/TE fast spin-echo technique. This approach allows acquisition of contrast-enhanced spin-echo images with high temporal and spatial resolution. The new technique is applied in a small group of patients and control subjects 1).
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Davis WL, Lee JN, King BD, Harnsberger HR. Dynamic contrast-enhanced MR
imaging of the pituitary gland with fast spin-echo technique. J Magn Reson
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