Object To develop an improved short tau inversion recovery (iSTIR) technique with
simultaneous suppression of fat, blood vessels and fluid to increase tumor conspicuity in the
abdomen for cancer screening. Materials and methods An adiabatic spectrally selective
inversion pulse was used for fat suppression to overcome the reduced signal to noise ratio
associated with chemically non-selective inversion pulse of STIR. A motion-sensitizing
driven equilibrium was used for blood vessel suppression and a dual-echo single-shot fast …