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3D UTE bicomponent imaging of cortical bone using a soft-hard composite pulse for excitation.

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Purpose

To evaluate 3D UTE bicomponent imaging of cortical bone ex vivo and in vivo using a newly designed soft-hard composite pulse for excitation.

Methods

Chemical shift artifacts, presenting as fat-water oscillation or combination-induced signal oscillation, significantly reduce the accuracy of quantitative UTE bicomponent analysis of cortical bone. To achieve fat suppression for more reliable bicomponent analysis, a newly developed soft-hard excitation pulse was used with UTE imaging and compared with a single rectangular pulse excitation without and with a conventional fat saturation (FatSat) module. These 3 sequences were applied to 8 bovine bone samples without marrow fat, 3 bovine bone samples with marrow fat, and tibial midshafts of 5 healthy human volunteers. Bicomponent analyses were performed in both ex vivo and in vivo studies.

Results

The soft-hard pulse provided comparable fat suppression, but much reduced bone signal attenuation compared with the FatSat module. Better bicomponent T2? fitting was also achieved with the soft-hard excitation pulse because it greatly reduced chemical shift artifacts and outperformed the single rectangular pulse without or with FatSat. Although the FatSat module reduced fat signals and related fat-water oscillation, the water signals were significantly attenuated with more than 40% reduction due to direction saturation. For the inner layer of tibial midshaft in healthy volunteers, fitting errors increased from 3.78% for the soft-hard pulse to 11.43% and 5.16%, respectively, for the single rectangular pulse without and with the FatSat module.

Conclusion

The 3D UTE sequence with a new soft-hard excitation pulse allows more reliable bicomponent imaging of cortical bone.

SUBMITTER: Li L

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7924727 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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3D UTE bicomponent imaging of cortical bone using a soft-hard composite pulse for excitation.

Li Liang L Chen Yanjun Y Wei Zhao Z Cai Zhenyu Z Jerban Saeed S Zha Yunfei Y Ma Ya-Jun YJ

Magnetic resonance in medicine 20200929 3

<h4>Purpose</h4>To evaluate 3D UTE bicomponent imaging of cortical bone ex vivo and in vivo using a newly designed soft-hard composite pulse for excitation.<h4>Methods</h4>Chemical shift artifacts, presenting as fat-water oscillation or combination-induced signal oscillation, significantly reduce the accuracy of quantitative UTE bicomponent analysis of cortical bone. To achieve fat suppression for more reliable bicomponent analysis, a newly developed soft-hard excitation pulse was used with UTE ...[more]

PMID: 32989787

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Project description:The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of excitation, fat saturation, long T2 saturation, and adiabatic inversion pulses on ultrashort echo time (UTE) imaging with bicomponent analysis of bound and free water in cortical bone for potential applications in osteoporosis.Six bovine cortical bones and six human tibial midshaft samples were harvested for this study. Each bone sample was imaged with eight sequences using 2D UTE imaging at 3T with half and hard excitation pulses, without and with fat saturation, long T2 saturation, and adiabatic inversion recovery (IR) preparation pulses. Single- and bicomponent signal models were utilized to calculate the T2(*)s and/or relative fractions of short and long T2(*)s.For all bone samples UTE T2(*) signal decay showed bicomponent behavior. A higher short T2(*) fraction was observed on UTE images with hard pulse excitation compared with half pulse excitation (75.6% vs 68.8% in bovine bone, 79.9% vs 73.2% in human bone). Fat saturation pulses slightly reduced the short T2(*) fraction relative to regular UTE sequences (5.0% and 2.0% reduction, respectively, with half and hard excitation pulses for bovine bone, 6.3% and 8.2% reduction, respectively, with half and hard excitation pulses for human bone). Long T2 saturation pulses significantly reduced the long T2(*) fraction relative to regular UTE sequence (18.9% and 17.2% reduction, respectively, with half and hard excitation pulses for bovine bone, 26.4% and 27.7% reduction, respectively, with half and hard excitation pulses for human bone). With IR-UTE preparation the long T2(*) components were significantly reduced relative to regular UTE sequence (75.3% and 66.4% reduction, respectively, with half and hard excitation pulses for bovine bone, 87.7% and 90.3% reduction, respectively, with half and hard excitation pulses for human bone).Bound and free water T2(*)s and relative fractions can be assessed using UTE bicomponent analysis. Long T2(*) components are affected more by long T2 saturation and IR pulses, and short T2(*) components are affected more by fat saturation pulses.

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3D UTE bicomponent imaging of cortical bone using a soft-hard composite pulse for excitation.

Purpose

Methods

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3D UTE bicomponent imaging of cortical bone using a soft-hard composite pulse for excitation.

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