Presentation
Epigastric pain. Non-diabetic
Patient Data
Age: 55 years
Gender: Female
From the case:
Fatty replacement of the pancreas
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As with fatty replacement of the liver there can be fatty replacement of pancreas, i.e. fat in the pancreatic acinar cells.
Case Discussion
On the "opposed" sequence the fat and water H atoms within those cells will be precessing out of phase (with a short Te of around 2.5 msec) thus signal will be reduced compared with the longer Te of say 5 msec where the H atoms are in sync and the signal intensity additive.
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