Placenta accreta MRI protocol

-->  Indications: assess for placenta accreta or percreta in the setting of prior C-sections and/or placenta previa.

 Sequences: patient supine.  Scan from top of uterus to symphysis

• Coronal HASTE
• Axial HASTE
• Sagittal HASTE
• Sagittal T2 FSE (non-breath-hold), FOV centered on placenta.
• Axial T2 FSE with fat saturation (non-breath-hold), FOV centered on placenta 
• Axial T1 FSE.

Comments:

·        Interpreting radiologist to check exam and add any additional sequences before patient leaves the scanner. 

Dictation template:

Non-contrast coronal, sagittal and axial HASTE; axial T1 FSE through the uterus.  Sagittal T2 fast spin echo centered on the placenta.