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Reducing distortions in echo-planar breast imaging at ultrahigh field with high-resolution off-resonance maps
- Source :
- Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 82(1), 425-435. Wiley, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2019.
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Abstract
- Purpose: DWI is a promising modality in breast MRI, but its clinical acceptance is slow. Analysis of DWI is hampered by geometric distortion artifacts, which are caused by off-resonant spins in combination with the low phase-encoding bandwidth of the EPI sequence used. Existing correction methods assume smooth off-resonance fields, which we show to be invalid in the human breast, where high discontinuities arise at tissue interfaces. Methods: We developed a distortion correction method that incorporates high-resolution off-resonance maps to better solve for severe distortions at tissue interfaces. The method was evaluated quantitatively both ex vivo in a porcine tissue phantom and in vivo in 5 healthy volunteers. The added value of high-resolution off-resonance maps was tested using a Wilcoxon signed rank test comparing the quantitative results obtained with a low-resolution off-resonance map with those obtained with a high-resolution map. Results: Distortion correction using low-resolution off-resonance maps corrected most of the distortions, as expected. Still, all quantitative comparison metrics showed increased conformity between the corrected EPI images and a high-bandwidth reference scan for both the ex vivo and in vivo experiments. All metrics showed a significant improvement when a high-resolution off-resonance map was used (P < 0.05), in particular at tissue boundaries. Conclusion: The use of off-resonance maps of a resolution higher than EPI scans significantly improves upon existing distortion correction techniques, specifically by superior correction at glandular tissue boundaries.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Wilcoxon signed-rank test
7T
Swine
Breast imaging
Computer science
diffusion-weighted imaging
off-resonance
SDG 3 – Goede gezondheid en welzijn
Models, Biological
Imaging phantom
030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging
Full Papers—Computer Processing and Modeling
distortion correction
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
Off resonance
off‐resonance
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
medicine
Animals
Humans
Breast MRI
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
breast
Full Paper
medicine.diagnostic_test
diffusion‐weighted imaging
Phantoms, Imaging
Distortion correction
Middle Aged
B mapping
echo-planar imaging
B0 mapping
Female
echo‐planar imaging
Algorithms
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Ex vivo
Biomedical engineering
Diffusion MRI
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 07403194
- Volume :
- 82
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....df117787154b055269407d14fda78c82