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Comparison between two types of improved motion‐sensitized driven‐equilibrium (iMSDE) for intracranial black‐blood imaging at 3.0 tesla
Author(s) -
Obara Makoto,
Kuroda Kagayaki,
Wang Jinnan,
Honda Masatoshi,
Yoneyama Masami,
Imai Yutaka,
Cauteren Marc
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of magnetic resonance imaging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.563
H-Index - 160
eISSN - 1522-2586
pISSN - 1053-1807
DOI - 10.1002/jmri.24430
Subject(s) - signal (programming language) , eddy current , pulse sequence , pulse (music) , nuclear magnetic resonance , physics , biomedical engineering , image quality , nuclear medicine , materials science , computer science , optics , medicine , image (mathematics) , artificial intelligence , quantum mechanics , detector , programming language
Purpose To investigate the image quality impact of a new implementation of the improved motion‐sensitized driven‐equilibrium (iMSDE) pulse scheme in the human brain at 3.0 Tesla. Materials and Methods Two iMSDE preparation schemes were compared; (a) iMSDE‐1: two refocusing pulses and two pairs of bipolar gradients and (b) iMSDE‐2: adding extra bipolar gradients in front of the iMSDE‐1 preparation. Computer simulation was used to evaluate the difference of eddy currents effect between these two approaches. Five healthy volunteers were then scanned with both sequences in the intracranial region and signal changes associated with iMSDE‐1 and iMSDE‐2 were assessed and compared quantitatively and qualitatively. Results Simulation results demonstrated that eddy currents are better compensated in iMSDE‐2 than in the iMSDE‐1 design. In vivo comparison showed that the iMSDE‐2 sequence significantly reduced the tissue signal loss at all locations compared with iMSDE‐1 (5.0% versus 23% in average, P < 0.0002 at paired t‐test). The signal in iMSDE‐1 showed greater spatial inhomogeneity than that of iMSDE‐2. Conclusion Our results show that iMSDE‐2 demonstrated smaller loss in signal and less spatial variation compared with iMSDE‐1, we conjecture due to the improved eddy current compensation. J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2014;40:824–831 . © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc .