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Abstract #0086

Multi-site, multi-vendor validation of accuracy, robustness and reproducibility of fat quantification on an oil-water phantom at 1.5T and 3T

Diego Hernando 1 , Mustafa R. Bashir 2 , Gavin Hamilton 3 , Jean M. Shaffer 2 , Samir D. Sharma 1 , Claude B. Sirlin 3 , Keitaro Sofue 2,4 , Nikolaus M. Szeverenyi 3 , Takeshi Yokoo 5,6 , Qing Yuan 5 , and Scott B. Reeder 1,7

1 Radiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States, 2 Radiology, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States, 3 Radiology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States, 4 Radiology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, 5 Radiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States, 6 Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States, 7 Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States

Chemical shift-encoded techniques for MRI-based quantification of triglyceride concentration have shown great promise for assessment of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. However, direct validation of these techniques in phantoms across multiple sites, vendors, platforms and field strengths has yet to be performed. In this work, we address this gap by scanning the same oil-water phantom sequentially at four sites and comparing proton density fat-fraction measurements obtained with a common reconstruction algorithm. Our results demonstrate excellent accuracy, robustness and reproducibility of PDFF measurements in a phantom across three vendors, four sites, two field strengths, and eight magnets.

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