Centrically reordered inversion recovery half-Fourier single-shot turbo spin-echo sequence: Improvement of the image quality of oxygen-enhanced MRI

Yoshiharu Ohno, Hiroto Hatabu, Takanori Higashino, Hideaki Kawamitsu, Hirokazu Watanabe, Daisuke Takenaka, Marc Van Cauteren, Kazuro Sugimura

研究成果: ジャーナルへの寄稿学術論文査読

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Purpose: The purpose of the study presented here was to determine the improvement in image quality of oxygen-enhanced magnetic resonance (MR) subtraction imaging obtained with a centrically reordered inversion recovery half-Fourier single-shot turbo spin-echo (c-IR-HASTE) sequence compared with that obtained with a conventional sequentially reordered inversion recovery single-shot HASTE (s-IR-HASTE) sequence for pulmonary imaging. Materials and methods: Oxygen-enhanced MR imaging using a 1.5 T whole body scanner was performed on 12 healthy, non-smoking volunteers. Oxygen-enhanced MR images were obtained with the coronal two-dimensional (2D) c-IR-HASTE sequence and 2D s-IR-HASTE sequence combined with respiratory triggering. For a 256×256 matrix, 132 phase-encoding steps were acquired including four steps for phase correction. Inter-echo spacing for each sequence was 4.0 ms. The effective echo time (TE) for c-IR-HASTE was 4.0 ms, and 16 ms for s-IR-HASTE. The inversion time (TI) was 900 ms. To determine the improvement in oxygen-enhanced MR subtraction imaging by c-IR-HASTE, CNRs of subtraction image, overall image quality, and image degradation of the c-IR-HASTE and s-IR-HASTE techniques were statistically compared. Results: CNR, overall image quality, and image degradation of c-IR-HASTE images showed significant improvement compared to those s-IR-HASTE images (P<0.05). Conclusion: Centrically reordered inversion recovery half-Fourier single-shot turbo spin-echo (c-IR-HASTE) sequence enhanced the signal from the lung and improved the image quality of oxygen-enhanced MR subtraction imaging.

本文言語英語
ページ(範囲)200-205
ページ数6
ジャーナルEuropean journal of radiology
52
2
DOI
出版ステータス出版済み - 11-2004
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All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • 放射線学、核医学およびイメージング

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