title: Improved MR venography: use of fast short inversion time inversion-recovery technique in evaluation of venous angiomas.
abstract: Eleven patients (five female and six male, aged 6-67 years) with venous angiomas underwent axial and coronal T1-weighted and fast short inversion time inversion-recovery (STIR) magnetic resonance (MR) imaging to assess the full extent of the malformations. Images were assessed subjectively by the authors in a nonblinded study. In all patients, fast STIR images depicted more anatomic detail than did T1-weighted images and depicted venous angiomas more clearly than did contrast material-enhanced CT scans but did not help discrimination of arteries and veins.
authors.affiliation: Magnetic Resonance Imaging Unit, St Thomas Hospital, United Medical Dental Schools, London, England.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Saks
authors.forename: F C
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Paterson
authors.forename: A T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Irvine
authors.forename: B A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Ayers
authors.forename: K G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Burnand
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D018810:Magnetic Resonance Angiography / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014652:Vascular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*