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Published on: September 7, 2018
A mask method to assess the uniformity of fat suppression in phantom studies
Yasuo Takatsu1,2, Masafumi Nakamura3, Kenichiro Yamamura4
1Department of Radiological Technology, Faculty of Health and Welfare, Tokushima Bunri University, 1314-1 Shido, Sanuki, Kagawa, 769-2193, Japan. pcblue2@yahoo.co.jp.
Abstract:
Fat suppression is a technique used to suppress the signals from adipose tissues, during clinical evaluation of the tissues near the fat-tissue boundary. However, in cases where the scan area has a complicated shape, the effect of fat suppression may demonstrate poor uniformity, resulting in diagnosis-related difficulties. To improve the uniformity of fat suppression, phantom studies are more suitable than volunteer studies. In this study, we evaluated the reliability of the region of interest (ROI) dependency using an unevenness phantom, to develop a method to assess the uniformity of fat suppression while using whole magnetic resonance imaging by masking the surrounding phantom. We modulated different ROI sizes, which were eroded from 100% to approximately 50%, and observed that the normalized absolute average deviation and error increased with decreased ROI. Using our method, more objective, concrete, and accurate data could be obtained by including the whole-body phantom (whole poor uniformity area).
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