Meeting Banner
Abstract #1488

A New Strategy for Consistent Uniform Fat Suppression in Breast MR Imaging

Martin D. Pickles1, Peter Gibbs1, Ersin Bayram2, Jessica Buzek2, Zhenghui Zhang2, Lindsay W. Turnbull1

1Centre for MR Investigations, University of Hull, Hull, East Yorkshire, United Kingdom; 2GE Healthcare, Waukesha, WI, United States

CHESS and spectrally selective inversion recovery fat nulling techniques are sensitive to B0 and B1 inhomogeneities which results in inconsistent non uniform fat suppression. The aim of this work is to develop a more robust fat suppression.

Keywords

abutting accuracy acquisition acquisitions added adiabatic agent appeared arrows auto axial become bottom breast calculations channel chemical chess chest coil combination combined concern consistency consistent consistently contrast cornerstone coronal coverage dedicated deemed defined descriptors detail dual east employed enhancement enhancing ensure especially evaluate even examinations examples excitation extensive frequency gradient hull hypothesis improved inconsistent individuals ineffective inefficient inhomogeneities inhomogeneity insensitive intensity inversion investigations kingdom lesion lexicon loss margin marked martin mass matrix morphological nevertheless noted nulled nulling outlined overall patients peter pickles poorly post presence pulse pulses quality radiologist rads recovery reduce reformat relating resolution reviewed robust saturated secondary selective sensitive sensitivity shim shimming since slice spatial spectral spectrally still strategy successfully superior suppression terms traditional traditionally tuning typical undergoing uniform utilize volumes wall water whereby