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. 2015 Jul 24;35(5):1439–1460. doi: 10.1148/rg.2015140289

Figure 9.

Figure 9

Type I chemical shift artifact. Coronal MR image of the retroperitoneum obtained at 3 T shows that spatial misregistration (arrows) caused by chemical shift differences between water and fat occurs along the frequency-encoding (readout) direction (craniocaudal direction) along the interface of the psoas muscle and the retroperitoneal fat.