TRADITIONAL POSTER - ismrm

Poster Sessions
2919. CS-Dixon: Compressed Sensing for Water-Fat Dixon Reconstruction
Mariya Doneva 1 , Peter Börnert 2 , Holger Eggers 2 , Alfred Mertins 1 , John Pauly 3 , Michael Lustig 3,4
1 Institute for Signal Processing, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany; 2 Philips Research Europe, Hamburg, Germany; 3 Electrical
Engineering, Stanford University, CA, United States; 4 Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley, CA, United States
An integrated Compressed Sensing-Dixon algorithm is proposed, which applies a sparsity constraint on the water and fat images and jointly estimates water,
fat and field map images. The method allows scan time reduction of above 3 in 3D MRI, fully compensating for the additional time necessary to acquire the
chemical shift encoded data.
2920. Accelerated Robust Fat/Water Separation at 7T
Sreenath Narayan 1 , Fangping Huang 1 , David Johnson 2 , Christoper Flask 1,3 , Guo-Qiang Zhang 1 , David
Wilson 1
1 Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States; 2 Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States; 3 Unversity
Hospitals, Cleveland, OH, United States
VARPRO-ICM was previously introduced as a Dixon processing formulation that was able to handle the very large field inhomogeneities seen at 7T.
However, long processing times have prevented this formulation from achieving practical use. In this abstract, we present image processing improvements
that decrease the processing times required to solve the VARPRO-ICM formulation by a factor of about 70.
2921. Consistent Region-Growing Based Dixon Water and Fat Separation for Images with Disconnected
Objects
Hua Ai 1 , Jingfei Ma 1
1 The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, United States
Consistent water and fat separation in images with disconnected objects is difficult for a region-growing based Dixon method. Here, we propose to monitor
and record the quality index of a recently-proposed algorithm for region-growing at each step. The quality index is then used to automatically segment the
disconnected objects into separate sub-images. Finally, the sub-images are consistently recombined on the basis of water and fat spectral asymmetry and
slice-to-slice phase correlation. The proposed method was tested on a total of 1106 axial in vivo leg images and was shown to reduce the number of
inconsistent slices from 203 to 6.
2922. Optimized Single-Acquisition Lipid- And Water-Selective Imaging at High Field
William M. Spees 1 , Tsang-Wei Tu 1 , Sheng-Kwei Song 1 , Joel Garbow 1
1 Biomedical MR Laboratory, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States
Side-lobe spatial-spectral excitation and frequency-selective saturation with a binomial-series RF pulse scheme were evaluated for application at high field.
Both methods yield separate water- or lipid-selective images in a single acquisition. In most circumstances, the performance of the binomial saturation
approach proves to be more robust. A strategy is described for overcoming unwanted artifacts arising from magnetic susceptibility mismatch in smallanimal
imaging.
2923. Chemical Shift Based Water-Fat Separation with an Undersampled Acquisition
Catherine J. Moran 1 , Ethan K. Brodsky, 12 , Huanzhou Yu 3 , Scott B. Reeder, 12 , Richard X. Kijowski 2 , Walter
F. Block 1,4
1 Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States; 2 Radiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United
States; 3 Global Applied Sciences Lab, GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, CA, United States; 4 Biomedical Engineering, University of
Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States
The chemical shift based IDEAL decomposition method generally requires redundant sampling at multiple time points. A unique undersampled radial k-
space trajectory at each echo time provides a means to accelerate data acquisition while still allowing for robust chemical species decomposition. In this
work we present a dual-pass dual-half-echo radial acquisition which utilizes undersampled source images with IDEAL to achieve bSSFP images with high
isotropic resolution and robust fat-water separation in the breast and knee.
2924. Influence and Compensation of Fat Signal Dephasing and Decay in Two-Point Dixon Imaging
Holger Eggers 1
1 Philips Research, Hamburg, Germany
Fat has a complex spectral composition, which causes its signal to dephase and decay noticeably even over short intervals. The influence of these effects on
the extent of fat suppression reached in two-point Dixon imaging is evaluated in this work and is found to strongly depend on the choice of echo times.
Moreover, it is shown how more complex spectral models of fat may be incorporated into a generalized two-point Dixon method, with which a more
uniform degree of fat suppression is achieved across a range of relevant echo times.
2925. Water Fat Separation with TSE BLADE Based on Three Points Dixon Technique
Dehe Weng 1,2 , Marc Beckmann 1
1 Siemens Mindit Magnetic Resonance Ltd, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China; 2 Beijing MRI Center for Brain Research, Institute of
Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Three points Dixon method for water and fat separation based on TSE BLADE is proposed. New phase correction using the in-phase image blades is
introduced for the reconstruction of the two out-of-phase images in order to keep the water fat chemical shift information so that the water and fat can be
separated after the reconstruction. Result shows that water and fat can be separated correctly, furthermore, the method enjoys the advantage of blade, it's less
vulnerable to rigid body motion and pulsation etc.