Assessment of the Quality of Breast MR Imaging Using the Modified Dixon Method and Frequency-Selective Fat Suppression: A Phantom Study

Yasuo Takatsu; Katsusuke Kyotani; Tsuyoshi Ueyama; Tosiaki Miyati; Kenichirou Yamamura; Atsushi Andou

doi:10.2463/mrms.tn.2017-0144

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Assessment of the Quality of Breast MR Imaging Using the Modified Dixon Method and Frequency-Selective Fat Suppression: A Phantom Study

Yasuo Takatsu, Katsusuke Kyotani, Tsuyoshi Ueyama, Tosiaki Miyati, Kenichirou Yamamura, Atsushi Andou

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Keywords: breast, Dixon, e-Thrive, fat suppression, magnetic resonance imaging

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2018 Volume 17 Issue 4 Pages 350-355

DOI https://doi.org/10.2463/mrms.tn.2017-0144

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To obtain objective and concrete data by physically assessing the quality of breast magnetic resonance images based on the fat-suppression effect by the modified Dixon method (mDixon) and frequency-selective fat suppression (e-Thrive) using an original lipid-content breast phantom that could easily reveal the influence of non-uniform fat suppression in breast magnetic resonance imaging. The fat-suppression uniformity was approximately seven times superior when using mDixon compared with when using e-Thrive. mDixon appears to have a significant advantage.

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