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Artifacts Improvement by using the Echo Planar Imaging and Pre-Saturation Pulse Band techniques of Reduced Field-Of-View in Breast Magnetic Resonance Imaging Examination

유방 자기공명영상검사에서 감소된 영상영역의 에코평면영상기법과 사전포화기법 사용에 의한 인공물 개선

  • Lee, Jaeheun (Department of Radiology, Pusan National University Hospital) ;
  • Kim, Hyunjin (Department of Biomedical Health Science, Graduate School of Dongeui University) ;
  • Im, Inchul (Department of Radiological science, Dongeui University)
  • 이재흔 (부산대학교병원 영상의학과) ;
  • 김현진 (동의대학교 대학원 보건의과학과) ;
  • 임인철 (동의대학교 방사선학과)
  • Received : 2015.07.16
  • Accepted : 2015.08.25
  • Published : 2015.06.30
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Abstract

This study was conducted in reducing the involuntary motion artifacts because of lungs and heart movements as well as the aliasing artifacts generated during the use of the reduced-FOV EPI technique while performing breast MRI. Performed on a total of 38 obesity female subjects who visited the clinic for pre-examination before surgery within the period from August 1 to November 30, 2014. The 3.0T MRI scanner equipped with a breast scanning coil. Qualitative and quantitative analyses were each used for the evaluation of the acquired images while an Paired T-test and Wilcoxon rank test were performed to check the statistical significance. The variation ratio rose by 15.69% with the additional application of a pre-saturation pulse in the lesion, by 13.72% near the lesion, and 20.63% in the fat and the contrast-to-noise ratio rose by 10.58% in and near the lesion and by 12.03% in the lesion and fat, respectively. there were increases of 22.05% and 21.42% at 0 and 1000 respectively in qulitative evaluation and growth of 16.10% in apparent diffusion coefficient. it showed a statistically significant result(p<0.05) in signal to noise ratio, contrast to noise ratio, diffusion slope coefficient and apparent diffusion coefficient. The involuntary movements artifacts that occur in the phase encoding direction and the aliasing artifacts are considered to be reduced to obtain the best image in the additional use of the pre-saturation pulse as DWI is acquired.

유방 자기공명영상검사 시 확산강조영상에서 발생하는 심장과 폐에 의한 불수의적 움직임 인공물과 감소된 영상영역 에코평면영상기법으로 발생하는 둘러겹침 인공물을 추가적인 사전포화기법을 사용하여 이를 저감화시키고자 하였다. 2014년 08월 1일부터 11월 30일까지 여성 환자 38명을 대상으로 하였으며 사용 장비로는 유방 검사에 최적화된 3.0T와 유방 전용 코일을 사용하였다. 영상의 평가와 분석은 정량적, 정성적 분석을 하였으며 통계적 유의성은 Paired T-test와 Wilcoxon rank test를 하였다. 결과적으로 추가적인 사전포화펄스의 사용으로 정량적인 평가에서는 병변에서 15.69%, 병변 근접 부위에서 13.72%, 지방에서 20.63%의 증가를 보였으며, 대조도 대 잡음비의 경우는 병변과 병변 근접 부위에서 10.58%, 병변과 지방 부위에서 12.03%의 증가로 나타났다. 정성적인 평가에서는 확산경사계수 0에서 22.05%, 1000에서 21.42%, 현성확산계수에서 16.10%의 증가로 나타났으며, 통계적 평가에서는 신호 대 잡음비와 대조도 잡음비, 확산경사계수와 현성확산계수에서 모두 유의한 결과로 나타났다(p<0.05). 따라서 사전포화펄스의 추가적인 사용으로 유방 자기공명영상 검사에서 확산강조영상 획득 시 위상 부호화 방향으로 발생하는 불수의적 움직임 인공물과 둘러겹침 인공물이 감소가 되어 최적의 영상을 얻을 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

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