Figure 4a.

Banding artifacts. (a) Axial balanced SSFP MR image of the liver of a patient who had undergone endovascular repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm shows a banding artifact (arrow) in the upper part of the abdomen. (b) Coronal balanced SSFP MR image of the upper part of the abdomen of a different patient shows banding artifacts (arrow) near the edges of the FOV. (c) Coronal T2-weighted MR image of the upper part of the abdomen of the same patient as in b acquired with the half-Fourier RARE sequence does not show the banding artifacts depicted in b.