Tsuboyama T, et al. - In this study, researchers tried to find out the feasibility of a newly developed half-Fourier acquisition single-shot turbo spin echo (HASTE) sequence for T2-weighted MRI of the female pelvis, in which scanning and post-processing filtering techniques were optimized to minimize blurring and the resultant reduction in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) was compensated by signal averaging of multiple excitations (multi-NEX), and to correlate its image quality with that of a conventional turbo spin-echo (TSE) sequence. They recruited a total of 50 females with the gynecological disease. In any case, adding TSE to mHASTE did not alter image interpretations. In comparison with TSE, mHASTE produced an equivalent SNR and significantly higher contrast between the myometrium and junctional zone.