Use of Fluid‐Attenuated Inversion‐Recovery Pulse Sequences for Imaging the Spinal Cord

Abstract

Fourteen patients with disease of the spinal cord were imaged with fluid‐attenuated inversion‐recovery (FLAIR) sequences in which the inversion time was chosen to substantially reduce or null the signal from CSF. Lesions were seen with greater conspicuity than with conventional contrast‐enhanced and ‐unenhanced T_1‐ and T_2‐‐weighted sequences in 11 cases.© 1992 Academic Press,Inc.