Abstract

MRCP is a technique of imaging biliary tract and pancreatic ducts, one of the techniques using breath hold. Technique to speeds up acquisition time using the ARC method one of Parallel Imaging technique to reduce the phase encoding of K-Space to increasing the breath hold. Therefore it can improve image sharpness and reduce blurring image. The purpose of this study was to investigate the difference of anatomical image information between using ARC and without using ARC on MRCP examination of coronal sequence T2 FRFSE and to find out better anatomical image information between using ARC and without using ARC on MRCP coronal sequenceT2 FRFSE.Type of study is quantitative with experimental approach. This study using MRI 1.5 T at RS Santo Borromeus Bandung. Data in 16 MRCP anatomical images of coronal sequence T2 FRFSE of 8 patients using ARC and without using ARC. Skoring in image were evaluated on gallbladder, cystic duct, common hepatic duct, intra hepatic duct, common bile duct and pancreatic duct by using questionnaires to be evaluated to the three radiologist (respondents). Results of the respondents were analyzed using the wilcoxon statistic test.The result of the research is showed a significant difference in the MRCP image anatomical information of the coronal of T2 FRFSE sequence between using ARC and without using ARC with significance value < 0,05. And produced the better image information is MRCP coronal sequence T2 FRFSE using ARC. Suggestion, application of ARC parallel imaging technique in sequence MRCP sequence T2 FRFSE and the results of this research can be used as baseline data to add ARC as operational standard of MRCP procedure.