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MRCP from a 63-year-old patient with carcinoma of the pancreatic head, distant from the papilla Vateri. The tumor involves the main bile duct. The volume rendering image (VRT) derived from the source data demonstrates high-grade stenosis of the main pancreatic and bile ducts.
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With the use of current multislice techniques for MR cholangiopancreatography various upper abdominal pathologies including pancreatic carcinoma, Klatskin tumor and metastatic spread can be non invasively depicted. Respiratory gating allows free breathing of the patient, which increases patient comfort, while excellent image quality can be achieved...
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... Although it is possible to cover the desired field-of-view (FoV) within two or three breathholds of approximately fifteen seconds each, unsteady breathing can lead to displacement between adjacent slices, known as "serious misregistration artifact". This drawback can in most cases be encountered by mutliplanar imaging or navigator-techniques. 3D-TSE -In contrast to the above mentioned techniques, 3D imaging uses two phase-encoding directions that allow for imaging of an anatomical slab with very high through-plane resolution and improved signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) [5]. ...
