Table 3.

MR Neurography (MRN) sequences.

Basic Sequences

•Thin-section (2–3 mm) high-resolution Axials

•Turbo-spin-echo (TSE) T1-weighted (T1W)

•TSE T2W DIXON or both fat-supressed (FS) and non-FS

•Coronal short tau inversion recovery (STIR)/proton-density (PD)

•Sagittal STIR/T2W

Additional Sequences

•3D STIR and/or T2W (SPACE/VISTA/CUBE)

•3D DWI PSIF

•Volume Diffusion-weighted imaging with background suppression (DWIBS)

•Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) with color-coded fractional anisotropy (FA) maps