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Chemical shift‐based water/fat separation in the presence of susceptibility‐induced fat resonance shift
Author(s) -
Karampinos Dimitrios C.,
Yu Huanzhou,
Shimakawa Ann,
Link Thomas M.,
Majumdar Sharmila
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
magnetic resonance in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.696
H-Index - 225
eISSN - 1522-2594
pISSN - 0740-3194
DOI - 10.1002/mrm.24157
Subject(s) - nuclear magnetic resonance , separation (statistics) , chemistry , resonance (particle physics) , physics , computer science , atomic physics , machine learning
Chemical shift‐based water/fat separation methods have been emerging due to the growing clinical need for fat quantification in different body organs. Accurate quantification of proton‐density fat fraction requires the assessment of many confounding factors, including the need of modeling the presence of multiple peaks in the fat spectrum. Most recent quantitative chemical shift‐based water/fat separation approaches rely on a multipeak fat spectrum with precalibrated peak locations and precalibrated or self‐calibrated peak relative amplitudes. However, water/fat susceptibility differences can induce fat spectrum resonance shifts depending on the shape and orientation of the fatty inclusions. The effect is of particular interest in the skeletal muscle due to the anisotropic arrangement of extracellular lipids. In this work, the effect of susceptibility‐induced fat resonance shift on the fat fraction is characterized in a conventional complex‐based chemical shift‐based water/fat separation approach that does not model the susceptibility‐induced fat resonance shift. A novel algorithm is then proposed to quantify the resonance shift in a complex‐based chemical shift‐based water/fat separation approach that considers the fat resonance shift in the signal model, aiming to extract information about the orientation/geometry of lipids. The technique is validated in a phantom and preliminary in vivo results are shown in the calf musculature of healthy and diabetic subjects. Magn Reson Med, 2012. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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