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Quantifying H&E staining results, grading and predicting IDH mutation status of gliomas using hybrid multi-dimensional MRI 利用混合多维磁共振成像量化胶质瘤的 H&E 染色结果、分级并预测 IDH 突变状态
IF 2.3 4区 医学
Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine Pub Date : 2024-04-05 DOI: 10.1007/s10334-024-01154-x
Wenbo Sun, Dan Xu, Huan Li, Sirui Li, Qingjia Bao, Xiaopeng Song, Daniel Topgaard, Haibo Xu
{"title":"Quantifying H&E staining results, grading and predicting IDH mutation status of gliomas using hybrid multi-dimensional MRI","authors":"Wenbo Sun, Dan Xu, Huan Li, Sirui Li, Qingjia Bao, Xiaopeng Song, Daniel Topgaard, Haibo Xu","doi":"10.1007/s10334-024-01154-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10334-024-01154-x","url":null,"abstract":"<h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Objective</h3><p>To assess the performance of hybrid multi-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging (HM-MRI) in quantifying hematoxylin and eosin (H&amp;E) staining results, grading and predicting isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) mutation status of gliomas.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Materials and methods</h3><p>Included were 71 glioma patients (mean age, 50.17 ± 13.38 years; 35 men). HM-MRI images were collected at five different echo times (80–200 ms) with seven <i>b</i>-values (0–3000 s/mm<sup>2</sup>). A modified three-compartment model with very-slow, slow and fast diffusion components was applied to calculate HM-MRI metrics, including fractions, diffusion coefficients and T2 values of each component. Pearson correlation analysis was performed between HM-MRI derived fractions and H&amp;E staining derived percentages. HM-MRI metrics were compared between high-grade and low-grade gliomas, and between IDH-wild and IDH-mutant gliomas. Using receiver operational characteristic (ROC) analysis, the diagnostic performance of HM-MRI in grading and genotyping was compared with mono-exponential models.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Results</h3><p>HM-MRI metrics <i>F</i><sub><i>D</i>very-slow</sub> and <i>F</i><sub><i>D</i>slow</sub> demonstrated a significant correlation with the H&amp;E staining results (<i>p</i> &lt; .05). Besides, <i>F</i><sub><i>D</i>very-slow</sub> showed the highest area under ROC curve (AUC = 0.854) for grading, while <i>D</i>slow showed the highest AUC (0.845) for genotyping. Furthermore, a combination of HM-MRI metrics <i>F</i><sub><i>D</i>very-slow</sub> and T2<sub><i>D</i>slow</sub> improved the diagnostic performance for grading (AUC = 0.876).</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Discussion</h3><p>HM-MRI can aid in non-invasive diagnosis of gliomas.</p>","PeriodicalId":18067,"journal":{"name":"Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine","volume":"21 1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140574550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Cross2SynNet: cross-device-cross-modal synthesis of routine brain MRI sequences from CT with brain lesion. Cross2SynNet:从带有脑部病变的 CT 对常规脑部 MRI 序列进行跨设备、跨模式合成。
IF 2.3 4区 医学
Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-05 DOI: 10.1007/s10334-023-01145-4
Minbo Jiang, Shuai Wang, Zhiwei Song, Limei Song, Yi Wang, Chuanzhen Zhu, Qiang Zheng
{"title":"Cross<sup>2</sup>SynNet: cross-device-cross-modal synthesis of routine brain MRI sequences from CT with brain lesion.","authors":"Minbo Jiang, Shuai Wang, Zhiwei Song, Limei Song, Yi Wang, Chuanzhen Zhu, Qiang Zheng","doi":"10.1007/s10334-023-01145-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10334-023-01145-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>CT and MR are often needed to determine the location and extent of brain lesions collectively to improve diagnosis. However, patients with acute brain diseases cannot complete the MRI examination within a short time. The aim of the study is to devise a cross-device and cross-modal medical image synthesis (MIS) method Cross<sup>2</sup>SynNet for synthesizing routine brain MRI sequences of T1WI, T2WI, FLAIR, and DWI from CT with stroke and brain tumors.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>For the retrospective study, the participants covered four different diseases of cerebral ischemic stroke (CIS-cohort), cerebral hemorrhage (CH-cohort), meningioma (M-cohort), glioma (G-cohort). The MIS model Cross<sup>2</sup>SynNet was established on the basic architecture of conditional generative adversarial network (CGAN), of which, the fully convolutional Transformer (FCT) module was adopted into generator to capture the short- and long-range dependencies between healthy and pathological tissues, and the edge loss function was to minimize the difference in gradient magnitude between synthetic image and ground truth. Three metrics of mean square error (MSE), peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), and structure similarity index measure (SSIM) were used for evaluation.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 230 participants (mean patient age, 59.77 years ± 13.63 [standard deviation]; 163 men [71%] and 67 women [29%]) were included, including CIS-cohort (95 participants between Dec 2019 and Feb 2022), CH-cohort (69 participants between Jan 2020 and Dec 2021), M-cohort (40 participants between Sep 2018 and Dec 2021), and G-cohort (26 participants between Sep 2019 and Dec 2021). The Cross<sup>2</sup>SynNet achieved averaged values of MSE = 0.008, PSNR = 21.728, and SSIM = 0.758 when synthesizing MRIs from CT, outperforming the CycleGAN, pix2pix, RegGAN, Pix2PixHD, and ResViT. The Cross<sup>2</sup>SynNet could synthesize the brain lesion on pseudo DWI even if the CT image did not exhibit clear signal in the acute ischemic stroke patients.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Cross<sup>2</sup>SynNet could achieve routine brain MRI synthesis of T1WI, T2WI, FLAIR, and DWI from CT with promising performance given the brain lesion of stroke and brain tumor.</p>","PeriodicalId":18067,"journal":{"name":"Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"241-256"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139692224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Rule-based deep learning method for prognosis of neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy by using susceptibility weighted image analysis. 基于规则的深度学习方法,利用感性加权图像分析预测新生儿缺氧缺血性脑病。
IF 2.3 4区 医学
Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-01-22 DOI: 10.1007/s10334-023-01139-2
Zhen Tang, Sasan Mahmoodi, Di Meng, Angela Darekar, Brigitte Vollmer
{"title":"Rule-based deep learning method for prognosis of neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy by using susceptibility weighted image analysis.","authors":"Zhen Tang, Sasan Mahmoodi, Di Meng, Angela Darekar, Brigitte Vollmer","doi":"10.1007/s10334-023-01139-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10334-023-01139-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Susceptibility weighted imaging (SWI) of neonatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury can provide assistance in the prognosis of neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE). We propose a convolutional neural network model to classify SWI images with HIE.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>Due to the lack of a large dataset, transfer learning method with fine-tuning a pre-trained ResNet 50 is introduced. We randomly select 11 datasets from patients with normal neurology outcomes (n = 31) and patients with abnormal neurology outcomes (n = 11) at 24 months of age to avoid bias in classification due to any imbalance in the data.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We develop a rule-based system to improve the classification performance, with an accuracy of 0.93 ± 0.09. We also compute heatmaps produced by the Grad-CAM technique to analyze which areas of SWI images contributed more to the classification patients with abnormal neurology outcome.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Such regions that are important in the classification accuracy can interpret the relationship between the brain regions affected by hypoxic-ischemic and neurodevelopmental outcomes of infants with HIE at the age of 2 years.</p>","PeriodicalId":18067,"journal":{"name":"Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"227-239"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139513241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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STEAM-SASHA: a novel approach for blood- and fat-suppressed native T1 measurement in the right ventricular myocardium. STEAM-SASHA:右心室心肌血液和脂肪抑制原生 T1 测量的新方法。
IF 2.3 4区 医学
Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-01-12 DOI: 10.1007/s10334-023-01141-8
Malte Roehl, Miriam Conway, Sarah Ghonim, Pedro F Ferreira, Sonia Nielles-Vallespin, Sonya V Babu-Narayan, Dudley J Pennell, Peter D Gatehouse, Andrew D Scott
{"title":"STEAM-SASHA: a novel approach for blood- and fat-suppressed native T1 measurement in the right ventricular myocardium.","authors":"Malte Roehl, Miriam Conway, Sarah Ghonim, Pedro F Ferreira, Sonia Nielles-Vallespin, Sonya V Babu-Narayan, Dudley J Pennell, Peter D Gatehouse, Andrew D Scott","doi":"10.1007/s10334-023-01141-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10334-023-01141-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The excellent blood and fat suppression of stimulated echo acquisition mode (STEAM) can be combined with saturation recovery single-shot acquisition (SASHA) in a novel STEAM-SASHA sequence for right ventricular (RV) native T1 mapping.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>STEAM-SASHA splits magnetization preparation over two cardiac cycles, nulling blood signal and allowing fat signal to decay. Breath-hold T1 mapping was performed in a T1 phantom and twice in 10 volunteers using STEAM-SASHA and a modified Look-Locker sequence at peak systole at 3T. T1 was measured in 3 RV regions, the septum and left ventricle (LV).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In phantoms, MOLLI under-estimated while STEAM-SASHA over-estimated T1, on average by 3.0% and 7.0% respectively, although at typical 3T myocardial T1 (T1 > 1200 ms) STEAM-SASHA was more accurate. In volunteers, T1 was higher using STEAM-SASHA than MOLLI in the LV and septum (p = 0.03, p = 0.006, respectively), but lower in RV regions (p > 0.05). Inter-study, inter-observer and intra-observer coefficients of variation in all regions were < 15%. Blood suppression was excellent with STEAM-SASHA and noise floor effects were minimal.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>STEAM-SASHA provides accurate and reproducible T1 in the RV with excellent blood and fat suppression. STEAM-SASHA has potential to provide new insights into pathological changes in the RV in future studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":18067,"journal":{"name":"Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"295-305"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10995026/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139432685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The possible influence of third-order shim coils on gradient-magnet interactions: an inter-field and inter-site study. 三阶垫片线圈对梯度磁铁相互作用的可能影响:场间和场间研究。
IF 2.3 4区 医学
Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-01-10 DOI: 10.1007/s10334-023-01138-3
Nicolas Boulant, Caroline Le Ster, Alexis Amadon, Guy Aubert, Alexander Beckett, Jean Belorgey, Cédric Bonnelye, Dario Bosch, David Otto Brunner, Guillaume Dilasser, Olivier Dubois, Philipp Ehses, David Feinberg, Sajjad Feizollah, Vincent Gras, Simon Gross, Quentin Guihard, Hervé Lannou, Denis Le Bihan, Franck Mauconduit, Frédéric Molinié, François Nunio, Klaas Pruessmann, Lionel Quettier, Klaus Scheffler, Tony Stöcker, Christine Tardif, Kamil Ugurbil, Alexandre Vignaud, An Vu, Xiaoping Wu
{"title":"The possible influence of third-order shim coils on gradient-magnet interactions: an inter-field and inter-site study.","authors":"Nicolas Boulant, Caroline Le Ster, Alexis Amadon, Guy Aubert, Alexander Beckett, Jean Belorgey, Cédric Bonnelye, Dario Bosch, David Otto Brunner, Guillaume Dilasser, Olivier Dubois, Philipp Ehses, David Feinberg, Sajjad Feizollah, Vincent Gras, Simon Gross, Quentin Guihard, Hervé Lannou, Denis Le Bihan, Franck Mauconduit, Frédéric Molinié, François Nunio, Klaas Pruessmann, Lionel Quettier, Klaus Scheffler, Tony Stöcker, Christine Tardif, Kamil Ugurbil, Alexandre Vignaud, An Vu, Xiaoping Wu","doi":"10.1007/s10334-023-01138-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10334-023-01138-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To assess the possible influence of third-order shim coils on the behavior of the gradient field and in gradient-magnet interactions at 7 T and above.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>Gradient impulse response function measurements were performed at 5 sites spanning field strengths from 7 to 11.7 T, all of them sharing the same exact whole-body gradient coil design. Mechanical fixation and boundary conditions of the gradient coil were altered in several ways at one site to study the impact of mechanical coupling with the magnet on the field perturbations. Vibrations, power deposition in the He bath, and field dynamics were characterized at 11.7 T with the third-order shim coils connected and disconnected inside the Faraday cage.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>For the same whole-body gradient coil design, all measurements differed greatly based on the third-order shim coil configuration (connected or not). Vibrations and gradient transfer function peaks could be affected by a factor of 2 or more, depending on the resonances. Disconnecting the third-order shim coils at 11.7 T also suppressed almost completely power deposition peaks at some frequencies.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Third-order shim coil configurations can have major impact in gradient-magnet interactions with consequences on potential hardware damage, magnet heating, and image quality going beyond EPI acquisitions.</p>","PeriodicalId":18067,"journal":{"name":"Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"169-183"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10995016/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139403552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Automatic segmentation of the interscapular brown adipose tissue in rats based on deep learning using the dynamic magnetic resonance fat fraction images. 基于深度学习的大鼠肩胛间棕色脂肪动态磁共振图像自动分割。
IF 2.3 4区 医学
Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Epub Date: 2023-11-29 DOI: 10.1007/s10334-023-01133-8
Chuanli Cheng, Bingxia Wu, Lei Zhang, Qian Wan, Hao Peng, Xin Liu, Hairong Zheng, Huimao Zhang, Chao Zou
{"title":"Automatic segmentation of the interscapular brown adipose tissue in rats based on deep learning using the dynamic magnetic resonance fat fraction images.","authors":"Chuanli Cheng, Bingxia Wu, Lei Zhang, Qian Wan, Hao Peng, Xin Liu, Hairong Zheng, Huimao Zhang, Chao Zou","doi":"10.1007/s10334-023-01133-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10334-023-01133-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The study aims to propose an accurate labelling method of interscapular BAT (iBAT) in rats using dynamic MR fat fraction (FF) images with noradrenaline (NE) stimulation and then develop an automatic iBAT segmentation method using a U-Net model.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>Thirty-four rats fed different diets or housed at different temperatures underwent successive MR scans before and after NE injection. The iBAT were labelled automatically by identifying the regions with obvious FF change in response to the NE stimulation. Further, these FF images along with the recognized iBAT mask images were used to develop a deep learning network to accomplish the robust segmentation of iBAT in various rat models, even without NE stimulation. The trained model was then validated in rats fed with high-fat diet (HFD) in comparison with normal diet (ND).</p><p><strong>Result: </strong>A total of 6510 FF images were collected using a clinical 3.0 T MR scanner. The dice similarity coefficient (DSC) between the automatic and manual labelled results was 0.895 ± 0.022. For the network training, the DSC, precision rate, and recall rate were found to be 0.897 ± 0.061, 0.901 ± 0.068 and 0.899 ± 0.086, respectively. The volumes and FF values of iBAT in HFD rats were higher than ND rats, while the FF decrease was larger in ND rats after NE injection.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>An automatic iBAT segmentation method for rats was successfully developed using the dynamic labelled FF images of activated BAT and deep learning network.</p>","PeriodicalId":18067,"journal":{"name":"Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"215-226"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138451854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Quantification of neurovascular compliance with retrospectively gated phase-contrast MRI. 利用回顾性选通相位对比 MRI 对神经血管顺应性进行量化。
IF 2.3 4区 医学
Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-01-09 DOI: 10.1007/s10334-023-01137-4
Marianne Nabbout, Michael C Langham, Christiana Cottrell, Felix W Wehrli
{"title":"Quantification of neurovascular compliance with retrospectively gated phase-contrast MRI.","authors":"Marianne Nabbout, Michael C Langham, Christiana Cottrell, Felix W Wehrli","doi":"10.1007/s10334-023-01137-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10334-023-01137-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Neurovascular compliance (NVC) is the change in the brain's arterial tree blood volume, ΔV, divided by the change in intra-vascular blood pressure, ΔP, during the cardiac cycle. The primary aim of this work was to evaluate the performance of MRI measurement of NVC obtained from time-resolved measurements of internal carotid artery (ICA) and vertebral artery (VA) flow rates. A secondary aim was to explore whether NVC could be estimated from common carotid (CCA) flow in conjunction with prior knowledge of mean ICA and VA fractional flow rates, given the small cross-section of ICA and VA in some populations, in particular small children.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>ΔV was quantified from the blood flow rate measured at the ICA and VA for actual NVC derivation. It was further estimated from individually measured CCA flow rate and mean flow fractions ICA/CCA and VA/CCA (which could alternatively be obtained from literature data), to yield estimated NVC. Time-resolved blood flow rate in CCA, ICA and VA was obtained via retrospectively-gated 2D PC-MRI at 1.5 T in healthy subjects (N = 16, 8 women, mean age 36 ± 13 years). ΔP was determined via a brachial pressure measurement.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Actual and estimated mean NVC were 27 ± 15 and 38 ± 15 μL/mmHg, respectively, and the two measurements were strongly correlated (r = 0.80; p = 0.0002) with test-retest intra-class correlation coefficients of 0.964 and 0.899.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Both methods yielded excellent retest precision. In spite of a large bias, actual and estimated NVC were strongly correlated.</p>","PeriodicalId":18067,"journal":{"name":"Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"307-314"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139403551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Field camera input to virtual phantom (ViP) scanner acquisitions for quality assurance of derived MRI quantities: first implementation and proof-of-principle. 虚拟模型(ViP)扫描仪采集的现场照相机输入,用于保证衍生磁共振成像数量的质量:首次实施和原理验证。
IF 2.3 4区 医学
Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Epub Date: 2023-12-21 DOI: 10.1007/s10334-023-01136-5
Peter David Gatehouse, Gabriella Captur, Sonia Nielles-Vallespin, Dudley John Pennell
{"title":"Field camera input to virtual phantom (ViP) scanner acquisitions for quality assurance of derived MRI quantities: first implementation and proof-of-principle.","authors":"Peter David Gatehouse, Gabriella Captur, Sonia Nielles-Vallespin, Dudley John Pennell","doi":"10.1007/s10334-023-01136-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10334-023-01136-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Quality assurance (QA) of measurements derived from MRI can require complicated test phantoms. This work introduces a new QA concept using gradient and transmit RF recordings by a limited field camera (FC) to govern the previous Virtual Phantom (ViP) method. The purpose is to describe the first technical implementation of combined FC+ViP, and illustrate its performance in examples, including quantitative first-pass myocardial perfusion.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>The new QA concept starts with a synthetic test object (STO) representing some arbitrary test input. Using recordings of the unmodified standard sequence by a gradient and RF waveform camera (FC), ViP calculates by Bloch simulation the continuous RF signal emitted by the STO during this sequence (hence FC+ViP). During nominally identical repetition of the sequence acquisition, ViP transmits the RF signal for scanner reception, reconstruction and any further parametric derivations by the unmodified standard scanner image reconstruction and analysis software.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The scanner outputs were compared against the input STOs.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>First proof-of-principle was discussed and supported by correlation between scanner outputs and the input STO. The work makes no claim that its examples are valid QA methods. It concludes by proposing a new industrial standard for QA without the FC.</p>","PeriodicalId":18067,"journal":{"name":"Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine","volume":" ","pages":"199-213"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138830312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Fast online spectral-spatial pulse design for subject-specific fat saturation in cervical spine and foot imaging at 1.5 T. 1.5 T 颈椎和足部成像中针对特定对象脂肪饱和度的快速在线光谱空间脉冲设计
IF 2.3 4区 医学
Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-17 DOI: 10.1007/s10334-024-01149-8
Christian Karl Eisen, Patrick Liebig, Jürgen Herrler, Dieter Ritter, Simon Lévy, Michael Uder, Armin Michael Nagel, David Grodzki
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Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology and Medicine Pub Date : 2024-02-22 DOI: 10.1007/s10334-024-01152-z
Paweł Wierzba, Anna Sękowska-Namiotko, Agnieszka Sabisz, Monika Kosowska, Lina Jing, Robert Bogdanowicz, Małgorzata Szczerska
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