Effect of echo-sampling strategy on the accuracy of out-of-phase and in-phase multiecho gradient-Echo MRI hepatic fat fraction estimation

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 567-575

  Levin, Yakir S ^a   Yokoo, Takeshi ^a   Wolfson, Tanya ^b   Gamst, Anthony C ^b   Collins, Julie ^a   Achmad, Emil A ^a   Hamilton, Gavin ^a   Middleton, Michael S ^a   Loomba, Rohit ^c   Sirlin, Claude B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

fat quantification; fatty liver disease; hepatic steatosis; magnetic resonance; multiecho

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84894228448     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.24193     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Bydder M, Yokoo T, Hamilton G, et al. Relaxation effects in the quantification of fat using gradient echo imaging. Magn Reson Imaging 2008; 26: 347-359.
2. Yokoo T, Bydder M, Hamilton G, et al. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: diagnostic and fat-grading accuracy of low-flip-angle multiecho gradient-recalled-echo MR imaging at 1.5 T. Radiology 2009; 251: 67-76.
3. Yokoo T, Shiehmorteza M, Hamilton G, et al. Estimation of hepatic proton-density fat fraction by using MR imaging at 3.0 T. Radiology 2011; 258: 749-759.
4. DeGraff R, Rothman D,. In vivo detection and quantification of scalar coupled 1H NMR resonances. Concepts Magn Reson 2001; 13: 32-76.
5. Bydder M, Hamilton G, Yokoo T, Sirlin CB,. Optimal phased-array combination for spectroscopy. Magn Reson Imaging 2008; 26: 847-850.
6. Naressi A, Couturier C, Castang I, de Beer R, Graveron-Demilly D,. Java-based graphical user interface for MRUI, a software package for quantitation of in vivo/medical magnetic resonance spectroscopy signals. Comput Biol Med 2001; 31: 269-286.
7. Hamilton G, Middleton MS, Bydder M, et al. Effect of PRESS and STEAM sequences on magnetic resonance spectroscopic liver fat quantification. J Magn Reson Imaging 2009; 30: 145-152.
8. Hamilton G, Yokoo T, Bydder M, et al. In vivo characterization of the liver fat (1)H MR spectrum. NMR Biomed 2011; 24: 784-790.
9. Efron B,. Better bootstrap confidence intervals (with discussion). J Am Stat Assoc 1987; 82: 171-200.
10. Reeder S, Hines C, Yu H, McKenzie C, Brittain J,. On the definitino of fat-fraction for in vivo fat quantification with magnetic resonance imaging. In: Proc ISMRM 17th Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Honolulu; 2009. p 211.
11. Szczepaniak LS, Babcock EE, Schick F, et al. Measurement of intracellular triglyceride stores by H spectroscopy: validation in vivo. Am J Physiol 1999; 276 (5 Pt 1): E977-989.
12. Thomsen C, Becker U, Winkler K, Christoffersen P, Jensen M, Henriksen O,. Quantification of liver fat using magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Magn Reson Imaging 1994; 12: 487-495.
13. Yu H, Shimakawa A, McKenzie CA, Brodsky E, Brittain JH, Reeder SB,. Multiecho water-fat separation and simultaneous R2* estimation with multifrequency fat spectrum modeling. Magn Reson Med 2008; 60: 1122-1134.