Venetian Blind Artifact Mri
The venetian blinds artifact is an uncommon tissue cutting artifact that leads to the formation of parallel series of strips of tissue separated from one another by narrow clear spaces.
Venetian blind artifact mri. Smaller 3d volume or scans with e g. It represents overlap between adjacent slabs that are acquired as separate acquisitions and then fused together. This gives rise to the so called venetian blind artifacts shown in the image left. Description quick overview with artifact information reason and help for the mri artifact.
Venetian blind artifact from motsa because each motsa slab is acquired at separate times exact registration of position and signal intensity of adjacent slabs may not be possible. Rain shower 2 appearance is a sonographic finding that is typically associated with adenomyosis but can also occur in uterine fibroids the venetian blind appearance associated with adenomyosis is typically thin whereas when associated with uterine fibroids there are also edge shadows or dense posterior shadowing from calcification 1. Magnetic resonance angiography mra is a group of techniques based on magnetic resonance imaging mri to image blood vessels. Transvaginal us is now considered the primary imaging modality for the diagnosis of adenomyosis and thus radiologists should be familiar with its sonographic appearance.
The venetian blind a k a. It has been attributed to either hardening of the tissue in the paraffin block or defective assembly of the microtome knife. Ultrasound features of adenomyosis including asymmetrical uterine wall thickening anteriorly with focal heterogeneity and associated increased blood flow as well as the venetian blind pattern of acoustic shadowing the latter may be seen with either adenomyosis or uterine fibroids. Venetian blind occurs on multi slab mra typically on reformations and mips when the adjacent slabs are not properly and seamlessly overlapped.
The saturation effect of inflowing blood in 3d inflow mra. Reformatting artifacts improper mip and reformations may give the false appearance of vessel occlusion or stenosis when it is only partially included in the mip volume. Adenomyosis is a common benign uterine condition and a frequent cause of pelvic pain in premenopausal women.