PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Anzai, Y
AU  - Lufkin, R B
AU  - Jabour, B A
AU  - Hanafee, W N
TI  - Fat-suppression failure artifacts simulating pathology on frequency-selective fat-suppression MR images of the head and neck.
DP  - 1992 May 01
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG  - 879--884
VI  - 13
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/13/3/879.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/13/3/879.full
SO  - Am. J. Neuroradiol.1992 May 01; 13
AB  - PURPOSE To describe fat-suppression failure artifacts and to caution against their misinterpretation.METHOD Magnetic-susceptibility artifacts were studied in a phantom model and the results were compared to MR images obtained in clinical cases.FINDINGS Artifacts manifested themselves as regions of focal fat-suppression failure and appeared as bright signals without geometric distortions at magnetic-susceptibility interfaces along the static field (z) direction. The location and extent of these artifacts were independent of either frequency or phase-encoding direction and are different from those observed in gradient-echo images.CONCLUSIONS In representative clinical MR exams, these artifacts were identified in the high nasopharynx and low orbit and should not be misinterpreted as pathology.