Navigated abdominal T1-W MRI permits free-breathing image acquisition with less motion artifact.

T1-W imaging of the pediatric abdomen is often limited by respiratory motion artifacts. Although navigation has been commonly employed for coronary MRA and T2-W imaging, navigation for T1-W imaging is less developed. Thus, we incorporated a navigator pulse into a fat-suppressed T1-W SPGR sequence such that steady-state contrast was not disrupted.

Magnetic resonance imaging for uterine and vaginal anomalies.

Purpose Of Review: Pediatric pelvic MRI has had dramatic advances in the past few years. This review documents studies demonstrating the accuracy of MRI for the evaluation of uterine and vaginal anomalies and discusses the salient changes to MRI methods that are particularly applicable to evaluating the pediatric patient with these developmental anomalies.

Recent Findings: MRI has high accuracy for evaluation of uterine and vaginal anomalies.