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Published on: November 8, 2012
Feasibility study of dual-accelerated simultaneous multi-slice imaging in diffusion tensor imaging of glioma
Yakun He1, Xiaoyu Chen1, Siqing Yi1
1Sichuan Cancer Hospital and Institute, Sichuan Cancer Center, School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Objective:
To explore the value of dual-accelerated simultaneous multi-slice (SMS) imaging in diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) of glioma.
Methods:
Thirty-four patients with glioma who underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in our hospital from January 2022 to March 2023 were randomly selected. The results of dual-accelerated SMS-DTI and conventional DTI were retrospectively analyzed. All patients were scanned using a uMR790 3.0T MRI scanner, and the scanning technicians followed a predefined sequence to ensure consistency in scan parameters. The images were subjectively evaluated using a Likert 5-point scoring system. Objective evaluation was performed by measuring the required values of the images with b-value = 1000 s/mm2, primarily measuring the signal intensity in the tumor region and the contralateral normal brain white matter region. The standard deviation values were used to calculate the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) in the same encoding direction as the background noise. The number of generated fiber pathways, fractional anisotropy (FA), and mean diffusivity (MD) were measured and analyzed using post-processing software. The relative FA (rFA) and relative MD (rMD) were calculated.
Results:
The results of conventional DTI and SMS-accelerated DTI were compared. In terms of subjective evaluation, including overall image quality, tumor edge clarity, and magnetic sensitivity artifacts, both techniques showed no significant differences, indicating comparable diagnostic performance in anatomical visualization. In terms of objective evaluation and quantitative parameter measurement, there were statistically significant differences in SNR and CNR values, with slightly lower values in the dual-accelerated SMS-DTI compared with conventional DTI, a significant reduction in scanning time can be achieved through a slight loss in image quality. The number of fiber pathways and the rFA and rMD values did not show typical differences between the two techniques. The correlation between these measures was highly similar, with no significant differences observed.
Conclusion:
The application of dual-accelerated simultaneous multi-slice imaging in DTI of glioma is feasible.
