Magnetic resonance imaging of pancreatitis: An update

Figure 4 Gallstone acute interstitial edematous pancreatitis. A: Axial single-shot turbo spin-echo T2-weighted (HASTE) image with fat-suppression; B: Axial in-phase T1-weighted image; C: Axial post-Gadolinium 3D-GRE T1-weighted image with fat-suppression during the hepatic arterial-dominant phase. There is mild diffuse lace-like increased T2 signal involving the pancreatic parenchyma (arrowheads), associated with a small amount of peripancreatic fluid (arrows) (A). The pancreas demonstrates diffuse minimal decreased T1 signal intensity with peripancreatic stranding (B); in addition to minimally reduced homogenous enhancement (C) in keeping in with diffuse edematous pancreatitis. There are also innumerable gallstones (asterisk) (A).