Constraining the initial phase in water-fat separation

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 216-221

  Bydder, Mark ^a   Yokoo, Takeshi ^a   Yu, Huanzhou ^b   Carl, Michael ^b   Reeder, Scott B ^c   Sirlin, Claude B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical shift; Dixon; Phase; Water fat separation

Indexed keywords

FAT; WATER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTROSCOPY;

ABDOMEN; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ALGORITHMS; BODY WATER; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 79451471427     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.08.011     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Reeder S.B., Wen Z., Yu H., Pineda A.R., Gold G.E., Markl M., et al. Multicoil Dixon chemical species separation with an iterative least squares estimation method. Magn Reson Med 2004, 51:35.
2. Hernando D., Haldar J.P., Sutton B.P., Ma J., Kellman P., Liang Z.P. Joint estimation of water/fat images and field inhomogeneity map. Magn Reson Med 2008, 59:571.
3. Dixon W.T. Simple proton spectroscopic imaging. Radiology 1984, 153:189.
4. Ma J. Review: Dixon techniques for water and fat imaging. J Magn Reson Imag 2008, 28:543.
5. Bydder M., Hamilton G., Yokoo T., Middleton M.S., Chavez A.D., Sirlin C.B. Fat-fat interactions in Dixon-variant imaging. Proc Intl Soc Mag Reson Med 2007, 1632.
6. Yu H., Shimakawa A., McKenzie C.A., Britain J.H., Reeder S.B. IDEAL water-fat decomposition with multi-peak fat spectral modeling. Magn Reson Med 2008, 60:1122.
7. Sutton B.P., Noll D.C., Fessler J.A. Fast, iterative image reconstruction for MRI in the presence of field inhomogeneities. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 2003, 22:178.
8. Bjorck A. Numerical methods for least squares problems 1996, 351. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
9. Vanhamme L., van den Boogaart A., Van Huffel S. Improved method for accurate and efficient quantification of MRS data with use of prior knowledge. J Magn Reson 1997, 129:35.
10. Bydder M, Shiehmorteza M, Yokoo T, Sugay S, Middleton MS, Girard O, Schroeder ME, Wolfson T, Gamst AM, Sirlin C. Assessment of liver fat quantification in the presence of iron. Magn Reson Imaging 2010;28:767-76.
11. Pineda A.R., Reeder S.B., Wen Z., Pelc N.J. Cramér-Rao bounds for three-point decomposition of water and fat. Magn Reson Med 2005, 54:625.
12. Hamilton G, Yokoo T, Bydder M, Mwangi I, Schroeder ME, Sirlin CB, Middleton MS. In-vivo characterization of the liver fat 1H magnetic resonance spectrum. NMR Biomed (in press).
13. Yu H., McKenzie C.A., Shimakawa A., Vu A.T., Brau A.C.S., Beatty P.J., et al. Multiecho reconstruction for simultaneous water-fat decomposition and T2* estimation. J Magn Reson Imaging 2007, 26:1153.
14. Haake E.M., Brown R.W., Thompson M.R., Venkatesan R. Magnetic resonance imaging-physical principles and sequence design 1999, 105. John Wiley & Sons, New York.
15. Chiang J.T., Carl M., Bydder M., Du J., Mattrey R.F., Bydder G.M. Phase accrual during excitation in ultrashort TE (UTE) imaging: an alternate definition of TE for phase measurements. Proc Intl Soc Mag Reson Med 2009, 4546.
16. Yu H., Reeder S.B., McKenzie C.A., Brau A.C.S., Shimakawa A., Brittain J.H., et al. Single acquisition water-fat separation: feasibility study for dynamic imaging. Magn Reson Med 2006, 55:413.
17. Liu C., McKenzie C.A., Yu H., Brittain J.H., Reeder S.B. Fat quantification with IDEAL gradient echo imaging: correction of bias from T1 and noise. Magn Reson Med 2007, 58:354.
18. Press W.H., Teukolsky S.A., Vetterling W.T., Flannery B.P. Numerical recipes in C (2nd ed.): the art of scientific computing 1992, 187. Cambridge University Press, New York.
19. Box M.J. Bias in nonlinear estimation. J Royal Stat Soc. Series B (Methodological) 1971, 33:171.
20. Willig-Onwuachi J., Yeh E.N., Grant A.K., Ohlinger M.A., McKenzie C.A., Sodickson D.K. Phase-constrained parallel MR image reconstruction. J Magn Reson 2005, 176:187.
21. Bydder M., Robson M.D. Partial Fourier partially parallel imaging. Magn Reson Med 2005, 53:1393.