(AGL) Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas; Professor of Ophthalmology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York City, New York; (PW) Class of 2020, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Subject
MRI; T1; Fat; Suppression
Description
1. MRI a. T1 i. Fat Suppression 1. Fat suppression is crucial to properly visualize pathology
Transcript
You can see the Grand Canyon here. Actually, we can't see anything because the fog. So even something as big as the Grand Canyon is not going to be visible if you don't have fat suppression. So, with MRI on T1 this fog represents the fat. You don't suppress the fat; white on white, equals white stuff. You need the fat suppress that fat otherwise you're going to miss the Grand Canyon.
