Large Numbers for Small Children-Up to What Age Do Infants Benefit from a Longer Echo Time in Cerebral T2 MRI Sequences?

• Egile Nagusiak: Anne Bettina Beeskow (Egilea), Franz Wolfgang Hirsch (Egilea), Timm Denecke (Egilea), Ina Sorge (Egilea), Daniel Gräfe (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: MDPI AG, 2024-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Gaiak: article
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In newborns, white matter shows a high T2-weighted (T2w) signal in MRI with poor grey-white matter contrast. To increase this contrast, an extremely long echo time (TE) is used in the examination of children. It is not known up to what age this long TE should be used. The purpose of this study was t...