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Objectives: The T1-weighted GRE (gradient recalled echo) sequence with the Dixon technique for water/fat separation is an essential component of abdominal MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), useful in detecting tumors and characterizing hemorrhage/fat content. Unfortunately, the current implementation of this sequence suffers from several problems: (1) low resolution to maintain high pixel bandwidth and minimize chemical shift; (2) image blurring due to respiratory motion; (3) water/fat swapping due to the natural ambiguity between fat and water peaks; and (4) off-resonance fat blurring due to the multipeak nature of the fat spectrum. The goal of this study was to evaluate the image quality of water/fat separation using a high-resolution 3-point Dixon golden angle radial acquisition with retrospective motion compensation and multipeak fat modeling in children undergoing abdominal MRI.

Materials and Methods: Twenty-two pediatric patients (4.2 ± 2.3 years) underwent abdominal MRI on a 3 T scanner with routine abdominal protocol and with a 3-point Dixon radial-VIBE (volumetric interpolated breath-hold examination) sequence. Field maps were calculated using 3D graph-cut optimization followed by fat and water calculation from k-space data by iteratively solving an optimization problem. A 6-peak fat model was used to model chemical shifts in k-space. Residual respiratory motion was corrected through soft-gating by weighting each projection based on the estimated respiratory motion from the center of the k-space. Reconstructed images were reviewed by 3 pediatric radiologists on a PACS (picture archiving and communication systems) workstation. Subjective image quality and water/fat swapping artifact were scored by each pediatric radiologist using a 5-point Likert scale. The VoL (variance of Laplacian) of the reconstructed images was used to objectively quantify image sharpness.

Results: Based on the overall Likert scores, the images generated using the described method were significantly superior to those reconstructed by the conventional 2-point Dixon technique (P < 0.05). Water/fat swapping artifact was observed in 14 of 22 patients using 2-point Dixon, and this artifact was not present when using the proposed method. Image sharpness was significantly improved using the proposed framework.

Conclusions: In smaller patients, a high-quality water/fat separation with sharp visualization of fine details is critical for diagnostic accuracy. High-resolution golden angle radial-VIBE 3-point Dixon acquisition with 6-peak fat model and soft-gated motion correction offers improved image quality at the expense of an additional ~1-minute acquisition time. Thus, this technique offers the potential to replace the conventional 2-point Dixon technique.

Competing Interests: Conflicts of interest and sources of funding: This research was supported in part by NIH grants S10 OD0250111 and R01 EB019483, and by the Department of Radiology at Boston Children's Hospital.

Titel:	Free-Breathing High-Resolution, Swap-Free, and Motion-Corrected Water/Fat Separation in Pediatric Abdominal MRI.
Autor/in / Beteiligte Person:	Nosrati, R ; Calakli, F ; Afacan, O ; Pelkola, K ; Nichols, R ; Connaughton, P ; Bedoya, MA ; Tsai, A ; Bixby, S ; Warfield, SK
Zeitschrift:	Investigative radiology, 2024-06-10
Veröffentlichung:	Ahead of Print, 2024
Medientyp:	academicJournal
ISSN:	1536-0210 (electronic)
DOI:	10.1097/RLI.0000000000001092
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Free-Breathing High-Resolution, Swap-Free, and Motion-Corrected Water/Fat Separation in Pediatric Abdominal MRI.