Fast and high-resolution quantitative mapping of tissue water content with full brain coverage for clinically-driven studies

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1752-1759

  Sabati, Mohammad ^a   Maudsley, Andrew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dual angle acquisition; Quantitative MRI; Reproducibility; RF nonuniformity; SPGR sequence; T1 mapping; Water content mapping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY; RELAXATION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPOILED GRADIENT ECHO; STEADY STATE; TISSUE WATER; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WATER CONTENT;

DUAL-ANGLE ACQUISITION; QUANTITATIVE MRI; REPRODUCIBILITY; RF NONUNIFORMITY; SPGR SEQUENCE; T1 MAPPING; WATER CONTENT MAPPING;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BODY WATER; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84887185913     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2013.08.001     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Ludemann L., Warmuth C., Plotkin M., Forschler A., Gutberlet M., Wust P., Amthauer H. Brain tumor perfusion: comparison of dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging using T1, T2, and T2* contrast, pulsed arterial spin labeling, and H2(15)O positron emission tomography. Eur J Radiol 2009, 70(3):465-474.
2. Besson J.A. Are NMR, brain changes in chronic alcoholism related to water content or structuring?. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 1990, 14(6):952-953.
3. Laule C., Vavasour I.M., Moore G.R., Oger J., Li D.K., Paty D.W., MacKay A.L. Water content and myelin water fraction in multiple sclerosis. A T2 relaxation study. J Neurol 2004, 251(3):284-293.
4. Gideon P., Rosenbaum S., Sperling B., Petersen P. MR-visible brain water content in human acute stroke. Magn Reson Imaging 1999, 17(2):301-304.
5. Shah N.J., Neeb H., Kircheis G., Engels P., Haussinger D., Zilles K. Quantitative cerebral water content mapping in hepatic encephalopathy. Neuroimage 2008, 41(3):706-717.
6. Badaut J., Lasbennes F., Magistretti P.J., Regli L. Aquaporins in brain: distribution, physiology, and pathophysiology. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2002, 22(4):367-378.
7. Wick W., Kuker W. Brain edema in neurooncology: radiological assessment and management. Onkologie 2004, 27(3):261-266.
8. Pauleit D., Floeth F., Hamacher K., Riemenschneider M.J., Reifenberger G., Muller H.W., Zilles K., Coenen H.H., Langen K.J. O-(2-[18F]fluoroethyl)-L-tyrosine PET combined with MRI improves the diagnostic assessment of cerebral gliomas. Brain 2005, 128(Pt 3):678-687.
9. Whittall K.P., MacKay A.L., Graeb D.A., Nugent R.A., Li D.K., Paty D.W. In vivo measurement of T2 distributions and water contents in normal human brain. Magn Reson Med 1997, 37(1):34-43.
10. Neeb H., Zilles K., Shah N.J. A new method for fast quantitative mapping of absolute water content in vivo. Neuroimage 2006, 31(3):1156-1168.
11. Volz S., Noth U., Deichmann R. Correction of systematic errors in quantitative proton density mapping. Magn Reson Med 2012, 68(1):74-85.
12. Venkatesan R., Lin W., Haacke E.M. Accurate determination of spin-density and T1 in the presence of RF-field inhomogeneities and flip-angle miscalibration. Magn Reson Med 1998, 40(4):592-602.
13. Warntjes J.B., Dahlqvist O., Lundberg P. Novel method for rapid, simultaneous T1, T*2, and proton density quantification. Magn Reson Med 2007, 57(3):528-537.
14. Neeb H., Ermer V., Stocker T., Shah N.J. Fast quantitative mapping of absolute water content with full brain coverage. Neuroimage 2008, 42(3):1094-1109.
15. Deoni S.C., Rutt B.K., Peters T.M. Rapid combined T1 and T2 mapping using gradient recalled acquisition in the steady state. Magn Reson Med 2003, 49(3):515-526.
16. Preibisch C., Deichmann R. T1 mapping using spoiled FLASH-EPI hybrid sequences and varying flip angles. Magn Reson Med 2009, 62(1):240-246.
17. Wang J., Qiu M., Constable R.T. In vivo method for correcting transmit/receive nonuniformities with phased array coils. Magn Reson Med 2005, 53(3):666-674.
18. Gasparovic C., Neeb H., Feis D.L., Damaraju E., Chen H., Doty M.J., South D.M., Mullins P.G., Bockholt H.J., Shah N.J. Quantitative spectroscopic imaging with in situ measurements of tissue water T1, T2, and density. Magn Reson Med 2009, 62(3):583-590.
19. Sabati M., Maudsley A.A. SNR-optimized, fast, and high-resolution mapping of whole brain tissue water content. Proc 19th ISMRM. Montreal, QC, Canada 2011, 2378.
20. Wansapura J.P., Holland S.K., Dunn R.S., Ball W.S. NMR relaxation times in the human brain at 3.0 tesla. J Magn Reson Imaging 1999, 9(4):531-538.
21. Helms G., Dathe H., Dechent P. Quantitative FLASH MRI at 3T using a rational approximation of the Ernst equation. Magn Reson Med 2008, 59(3):667-672.
22. Deoni S.C., Peters T.M., Rutt B.K. Determination of optimal angles for variable nutation proton magnetic spin-lattice, T1, and spin-spin, T2, relaxation times measurement. Magn Reson Med 2004, 51(1):194-199.
23. Weiskopf N., Lutti A., Helms G., Novak M., Ashburner J., Hutton C. Unified segmentation based correction of R1 brain maps for RF transmit field inhomogeneities (UNICORT). Neuroimage 2011, 54(3):2116-2124.
24. Sabati M., Maudsley A.A. Clinically-driven fast and high-resolution mapping of T1, M0, and B1 with whole brain coverage. Proc 18th ISMRM. Stockholm, Sweden 2010, 2317.
25. Smith S.M. Fast robust automated brain extraction. Hum Brain Mapp 2002, 17(3):143-155.
26. Zhang Y., Brady M., Smith S. Segmentation of brain MR images through a hidden Markov random field model and the expectation-maximization algorithm. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 2001, 20(1):45-57.
27. Kreis R., Ernst T., Ross B.D. Development of the human brain: in vivo quantification of metabolite and water content with proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Magn Reson Med 1993, 30(4):424-437.
28. Johanson C.E., Duncan J.A., Klinge P.M., Brinker T., Stopa E.G., Silverberg G.D. Multiplicity of cerebrospinal fluid functions: new challenges in health and disease. Cerebrospinal Fluid Res 2008, 5:10.
29. Fleysher R., Fleysher L., Liu S., Gonen O. TriTone: a radiofrequency field (B1)-insensitive T1 estimator for MRI at high magnetic fields. Magn Reson Imaging 2008, 26(6):781-789.
30. Ordidge R.J., Gibbs P., Chapman B., Stehling M.K., Mansfield P. High-speed multislice T1 mapping using inversion-recovery echo-planar imaging. Magn Reson Med 1990, 16(2):238-245.
31. Shah N.J., Neeb H., Zaitsev M., Steinhoff S., Kircheis G., Amunts K., Haussinger D., Zilles K. Quantitative T1 mapping of hepatic encephalopathy using magnetic resonance imaging. Hepatology 2003, 38(5):1219-1226.
32. Deichmann R. Fast high-resolution T1 mapping of the human brain. Magn Reson Med 2005, 54(1):20-27.
33. Wright P.J., Mougin O.E., Totman J.J., Peters A.M., Brookes M.J., Coxon R., Morris P.E., Clemence M., Francis S.T., Bowtell R.W., et al. Water proton T1 measurements in brain tissue at 7, 3, and 1.5T using IR-EPI, IR-TSE, and MPRAGE: results and optimization. MAGMA 2008, 21(1-2):121-130.
34. Gowland P., Mansfield P. Accurate measurement of T1 in vivo in less than 3seconds using echo-planar imaging. Magn Reson Med 1993, 30(3):351-354.
35. Steinhoff S., Zaitsev M., Zilles K., Shah N.J. Fast T(1) mapping with volume coverage. Magn Reson Med 2001, 46(1):131-140.
36. Trzasko J.D., Mostardi P.M., Riederer S.J., Manduca A. Estimating T1 from multichannel variable flip angle SPGR sequences. Magn Reson Med 2013, 69(6):1787-1794.
37. Sabati M., Govind V., Maudsley A.A. Signal normalization for MR spectroscopic imaging using brain tissue water: variability and pathologic detectability. Proc 19th ISMRM. Montreal, QC, Canada 2011, 1434.
38. Christiansen P., Henriksen O., Stubgaard M., Gideon P., Larsson H.B. In vivo quantification of brain metabolites by 1H-MRS using water as an internal standard. Magn Reson Imaging 1993, 11(1):107-118.
39. Voigt T., Nehrke K., Doessel O., Katscher U. T1 corrected B1 mapping using multi-TR gradient echo sequences. Magn Reson Med 2010, 64(3):725-733.
40. Yarnykh V.L. Actual flip-angle imaging in the pulsed steady state: a method for rapid three-dimensional mapping of the transmitted radiofrequency field. Magn Reson Med 2007, 57(1):192-200.