Improvement of Fat Suppression and Artifact Reduction Using IDEAL Technique in Head and Neck MRI at 3T

The fat suppression technique is routinely used in clinical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the head and neck to improve tissue or lesion contrast for characterization purposes (1). In head and neck MRI, abrupt changes in contour and density between air and soft tissue make magnetic inhomogeneity and susceptibility artifacts, which present as regions of signal loss and architectural distortion (1, 2). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Received: March 17, 2016 Revised: March 22, 2016 Accepted: March 22, 2016