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Whole-Body Turbo Short Tau Inversion Recovery MR Imaging Using a Moving Tabletop

Martin J. O'Connell1,2, Gormlaith Hargaden2, Tom Powell1 and Stephen J. Eustace1,2

1 Department of Radiology, Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital, Finglas, Dublin 11, Ireland.
2 Department of Radiology, Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Eccles St., Dublin 7, Ireland.



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  		Fig. 1. —Coronal turbo short tau inversion recovery whole-body MR image acquired with moving tabletop in 30-year-old healthy male volunteer shows normal brain parenchyma, liver, spleen, kidneys, and axial and appendicular skeleton. Automated image acquisition using moving tabletop facilitates exact alignment of images acquired in same slice at each of five stations throughout body.

 


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  		Fig. 2. —39-year-old man with metastatic adenocarcinoma due to unknown primary source. Turbo short tau inversion recovery whole-body MR image acquired with moving tabletop and realigned at operating console shows extensive hyperintense, infiltrating lesion in left scapula (short arrow). In proximal left femur, benign enchondroma is identified (long arrow). No visceral abnormalities are present.

 


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  		Fig. 3. —16-year-old boy with Ewing's tumor. Whole-body turbo short tau inversion recovery MR image with Mobi-Trak (Philips Medical Systems, Best, The Netherlands) shows solitary lesion in left femoral diaphysis extending into adjacent soft tissues (arrow) without skeletal or visceral metastases.

 

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