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Our purpose was to compare prospectively the sensitivity of contrast-enhanced magnetisation transfer (MT) MRI and gradient-echo (GE) T1-weighted images in metastatic disease of the brain. We studied 52 patients with brain metastases, using conventional T1-weighted GE and MT spin-echo (SE) images after the same standard dose of gadolinium. Axial 5-mm reconstructions of GE data were compared with 5-mm MT images in the same plane. Metastases were counted independently by two neuroradiologists. In 12 patients (23 %) MT imaging showed more metastases than GE images (P = 0.03). We detected 68 more metastases with the former technique.
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Received: 27 July 1997 Accepted: 22 April 1998
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Peretti-Viton, P., Taieb, D., Viton, J. et al. Contrast-enhanced magnetisation transfer MRI in metastatic lesions of the brain. Neuroradiology 40, 783–787 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002340050684
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002340050684