New Techniques in MRI and their Clinical Applicability

2007-8 secures the era of higher field MR imaging and ushers in the era of superfast and motion-free MR imaging. As well, several newer neuroimaging techniques have migrated from the MR research laboratories to clinical practice. Among them, the derivatives of diffusion weighted imaging, especially diffusion tractography (fibertrack imaging) and diffusion-weighted whole-body imaging (DWIBS), bolus track and arterial spin labeling perfusion MR imaging, time resolved MR angiography (4D TRAK, TWIST, and 4D TRICKS), susceptibility weighted imaging and motion correction imaging (propeller, blade, multivane).