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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 3.
Published in final edited form as: J Magn Reson Imaging. 2012 Jun 4;36(3):686–696. doi: 10.1002/jmri.23701

Table 2.

Signal characteristics of 34 radiologically diagnosed FNH, two of which are also histologically diagnosed, with gadoxetic acid-enhanced MRI.

Signal
Intensities
Imaging Sequence

T1w
pre contrast
Out of Phase /
In Phase
T2w T1w
arterial
T1w
portal venous
T1w
delayed (20min)

n (%) SIR n (%) SIR n (%) SIR n (%) SIR n (%) SIR n (%) SIR
Hyperintense 5 (15%) 1.29 ± 0.23 3 (9%) 1.11 ± 0.05 21 (62%) 1.48 ± 0.27 34 (100%) 1.65 ± 0.46 23 (68%) 1.19 ± 0.46 23 (68%) 1.23 ± 0.12
Isointense 10 (29%) 1.01 ± 0.03 15 (44%) 1.00 ± 0.03 7 (21%) 1.01 ±0.02 0 n/a 10 (29%) 1.01 ±0.03 12 (32%) 1.00 ± 0.02
Hypointense 18 (53%) 0.85 ± 0.06 10 (29%) 0.89 ± 0.05 0 n/a 0 n/a 1 (3%) 0.94 0 n/a

Total 33* 28** 28*** 34 34 34

SIR: signal intensity ratios

*

One lesion was not visible on pre-contrast T1w imaging.

**

Six lesions were not visible on in and out of phase imaging

***

Six lesions were not visible on T2 weighted imaging