Purpose: To assess the feasibility of using the FLAIR (fluid-attenuated inversion recovery)-HASTE (half-fourier cquisition single-shot turbo spin-echo) sequence for the differential diagnosis of focal hepatic lesions. aterials and Methods: During a 12-month period, 80 patients with 127 focal hepatic lesions [hemangiomas n= 601, hepatocellular carcinomas (HCC) (n= 27), cysts (n= 25), and metastases (n= 15)] underwent MR imaging using a 1.5-T scanner. Verification of the diagnosis was based on the findings of pathology (n= 11), of angiography and clinical investigation (n = 17), or of dynamic contrast-enhanced MR imaging (n= 99). MR sequences included T2-weighted HASTE (TE, 134 ms; echo space,4.4 ms) , FLAIR-HASTE (TE,64 ms; echo pace,4.4 ms; inversion time,2000 ms; number of slices,5-7; acquisition time, 13-20 sl , and dynamic gadolinium-enhanced T1-weighted FLASH (TR,131 ms; TE,4 ms). FLAIR-HASTE imaging was of any focal lesions seen on T2-weighted HASTE images was performed in the liver area, and their signal intensity was classified n one of five ways: very high (higher than the spleens, moderately high (similar to the spleen), slightly high higher than the liver and lower than the spleen), intermediate (similar to the liver), or low flower than the liver) . Results: The signal intensity of the 25 cysts, as determined by FLAIR-HASTE, was low in 21 cases (84%, intermediate in three (12%), and very high in one (4%), which was diagnosed as a complicated cyst in which ultrasound revealed internal septa.