New paper: Relevance of lesion size in navigator-triggered and free-breathing diffusion-weighted liver MRI
Congratulations to Bianca Reithmeier and co-authors on the recently published article “Relevance of lesion size in navigator-triggered and free-breathing diffusion-weighted liver MRI”!
This study investigated the effectiveness of navigator-triggered (TRIG) versus free-breathing (FB) diffusion-weighted MRI in detecting small focal liver lesions (FLLs). Among 885 segmented lesions, TRIG detected significantly more small lesions (≤8 mm) with better contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) and visibility compared to FB. The results suggest that respiratory triggering is particularly beneficial for the detection of small liver lesions, improving image quality for lesions up to 1 cm. The results highlight the clinical relevance of using TRIG to improve the detection of small FLLs in MRI.
The full article can be found here: