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Abstract #1670

On the confounding effect of temperature on chemical shift-encoded fat quantification

Diego Hernando 1 , Samir D. Sharma 1 , Harald Kramer 1,2 , and Scott B. Reeder 1,3

1 Radiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States, 2 Ludwig-Maximilians-University Hospital Munich, Munich, Germany, 3 Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States

The proton resonance frequency (PRF) of water depends on temperature, whereas the PRF of triglycerides is temperature independent (aside from bulk susceptibility effects). This leads to a temperature dependence of the frequency shift between fat and water resonances, which may introduce errors in chemical shift-encoded (CSE) fat quantification methods that assume a known relative shift between the PRF of water and fat. In this work, we characterize the confounding effect of temperature on CSE fat quantification. Further, we demonstrate that a temperature-corrected spectral model of fat can be used to avoid these errors.

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