Contrast enhancement of intracranial lesions at 1.5 T: comparison among 2D spin echo, black-blood (BB) Cube, and BB Cube-FLAIR sequences.

Objectives The purpose of this study was to investigate the usefulness of T1W black-blood Cube(BB Cube) and T1W BB Cube fluid-attenuated inversion recovery(BB Cube-FLAIR) sequences for contrast-enhanced brain imaging, by evaluating flow-related artefacts, detectability, and contrast ratio(CR) of intracranial lesions among these sequences and T1W-SE.