OBJECTIVE: We designed our study to prospectively assess a potential role for chemical-shift MR imaging in identifying a thymus that has not been completely replaced by fat tissue. CONCLUSION: The thymic tissue revealed homogeneous decrease in intensity on opposed-phase MR images relative to that seen on in-phase images in 15 healthy volunteers and two patients with hyperplastic thymus. Chemical-shift MR imaging may be useful in identifying normal thymic tissue and the hyperplastic thymus in early adulthood.
OBJECTIVE: We designed our study to prospectively assess a potential role for chemical-shift MR imaging in identifying a thymus that has not been completely replaced by fat tissue. CONCLUSION: The thymic tissue revealed homogeneous decrease in intensity on opposed-phase MR images relative to that seen on in-phase images in 15 healthy volunteers and two patients with hyperplastic thymus. Chemical-shift MR imaging may be useful in identifying normal thymic tissue and the hyperplastic thymus in early adulthood.
Authors: Sokratis Makrogiannis; Ramona Ramachandran; Kenneth W Fishbein; Dimitrios Kapogiannis; Richard G Spencer; Chee W Chia Journal: Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc Date: 2011
Authors: Kenneth W Fishbein; Sokratis K Makrogiannis; Vanessa A Lukas; Marilyn Okine; Ramona Ramachandran; Luigi Ferrucci; Josephine M Egan; Chee W Chia; Richard G Spencer Journal: Magn Reson Imaging Date: 2018-03-29 Impact factor: 2.546