Q: What is the clinical utility of "Spin echo imaging" in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)? 


 Answer: Cardiac MRI is an umbrella term for various methods to utilize it to evaluate various functions of heart like Spin echo imaging, Steady state free precession imaging, Flow velocity encoding, Magnetic resonance spectroscopy. 

Spin echo imaging shows the tissue structures of the heart as bright and the blood as dark. It provides details of anatomical imaging, and identify the fatty infiltration of the right ventricular free wall to evaluate arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC).


Reference:

Menghetti L, Basso C, Nava A, et al. Spin-echo nuclear magnetic resonance for tissue characterisation in arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy. Heart 1996; 76:467.