TY - JOUR T1 - 3D Cranial Nerve Imaging, a Novel MR Neurography Technique Using Black-Blood STIR TSE with a Pseudo Steady-State Sweep and Motion-Sensitized Driven Equilibrium Pulse for the Visualization of the Extraforaminal Cranial Nerve Branches JF - American Journal of Neuroradiology JO - Am. J. Neuroradiol. SP - 578 LP - 580 DO - 10.3174/ajnr.A6904 VL - 42 IS - 3 AU - F. Van der Cruyssen AU - T.-M. Croonenborghs AU - R. Hermans AU - R. Jacobs AU - J. Casselman Y1 - 2021/03/01 UR - http://www.ajnr.org/content/42/3/578.abstract N2 - SUMMARY: This study investigated the feasibility of a 3D black-blood STIR TSE sequence with a pseudo steady-state sweep and motion-sensitized driven equilibrium pulse for extraforaminal cranial nerve imaging on a 3T system. Assessments of healthy volunteers showed near-perfect agreement in nerve visualization with excellent to good visualization of the extraforaminal trigeminal, greater occipital, and facial nerves. Suppression of surrounding tissues was excellent to good. 3D cranial nerve imaging can produce nerve selective imaging of extraforaminal cranial and spinal nerve branches.3D CRANI3D cranial nerve imagingPSSpseudo steady-stateMDSEmotion-sensitized driven equilibrium ER -