Rapid automated liver quantitative susceptibility mapping.
J Magn Reson Imaging
; 50(3): 725-732, 2019 09.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Accurate measurement of the liver iron concentration (LIC) is needed to guide iron-chelating therapy for patients with transfusional iron overload. In this work, we investigate the feasibility of automated quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) to measure the LIC.PURPOSE:
To develop a rapid, robust, and automated liver QSM for clinical practice. STUDY TYPE Prospective. POPULATION 13 healthy subjects and 22 patients. FIELD STRENGTH/SEQUENCES 1.5 T and 3 T/3D multiecho gradient-recalled echo (GRE) sequence. ASSESSMENT Data were acquired using a 3D GRE sequence with an out-of-phase echo spacing with respect to each other. All odd echoes that were in-phase (IP) were used to initialize the fat-water separation and field estimation (T2 *-IDEAL) before performing QSM. Liver QSM was generated through an automated pipeline without manual intervention. This IP echo-based initialization method was compared with an existing graph cuts initialization method (simultaneous phase unwrapping and removal of chemical shift, SPURS) in healthy subjects (n = 5). Reproducibility was assessed over four scanners at two field strengths from two manufacturers using healthy subjects (n = 8). Clinical feasibility was evaluated in patients (n = 22). STATISTICAL TESTS IP and SPURS initialization methods in both healthy subjects and patients were compared using paired t-test and linear regression analysis to assess processing time and region of interest (ROI) measurements. Reproducibility of QSM, R2 *, and proton density fat fraction (PDFF) among the four different scanners was assessed using linear regression, Bland-Altman analysis, and the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC).RESULTS:
Liver QSM using the IP method was found to be ~5.5 times faster than SPURS (P < 0.05) in initializing T2 *-IDEAL with similar outputs. Liver QSM using the IP method were reproducibly generated in all four scanners (average coefficient of determination 0.95, average slope 0.90, average bias 0.002 ppm, 95% limits of agreement between -0.06 to 0.07 ppm, ICC 0.97). DATACONCLUSION:
Use of IP echo-based initialization enables robust water/fat separation and field estimation for automated, rapid, and reproducible liver QSM for clinical applications. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE 1 Technical Efficacy Stage 2 J. Magn. Reson. Imaging 2019;50725-732.Palabras clave
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Imagen por Resonancia Magnética
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Interpretación de Imagen Asistida por Computador
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Sobrecarga de Hierro
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Hierro
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Hígado
Tipo de estudio:
Guideline
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Observational_studies
Límite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Magn Reson Imaging
Asunto de la revista:
DIAGNOSTICO POR IMAGEM
Año:
2019
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos