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ABSTRACT: 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
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]