Robust fat suppression at 3T in high‐resolution diffusion‐weighted single‐shot echo‐planar imaging of human brain |
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| Authors: | Joelle E Sarlls Carlo Pierpaoli S Lalith Talagala Wen‐Ming Luh |
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| Institution: | 1. Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA;2. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH MRI Research Facility, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA;3. Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Program on Pediatric Imaging and Tissue Sciences, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA;4. Functional MRI Facility, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA |
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| Abstract: | Single‐shot echo‐planar imaging is the most common acquisition technique for whole‐brain diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) studies in vivo. Higher field MRI systems are readily available and advantageous for acquiring DTI due to increased signal. One of the practical issues for DTI with single‐shot echo‐planar imaging at high‐field is incomplete fat suppression resulting in a chemically shifted fat artifact within the brain image. Unsuppressed fat is especially detrimental in DTI because the diffusion coefficient of fat is two orders of magnitude lower than that of parenchyma, producing brighter appearing fat artifacts with greater diffusion weighting. In this work, several fat suppression techniques were tested alone and in combination with the goal of finding a method that provides robust fat suppression and can be used in high‐resolution single‐shot echo‐planar imaging DTI studies. Combination of chemical shift saturation with slice‐select gradient reversal within a dual‐spin‐echo diffusion preparation period was found to provide robust fat suppression at 3 T. Magn Reson Med, 2011. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. |
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| Keywords: | mri diffusion fat suppression brain artifact |
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