With continuously rising breast augmentation procedures worldwide, there is an increasing clinical need for an early and accurate detection of implant complications. In clinical practice, silicone implants are mainly visualized by silicone-only acquisitions which can be limited by a low signal-to-noise ratio and poor resolution. The present work proposes chemical shift encoding-based multi-echo gradient-echo imaging in combination with a robust graph-cuts-based water-fat-silicone separation. The resulting multi-contrast imaging at high isotropic resolution enables a more precise delineation of the implant capsule and a better evaluation of the implant’s integrity compared to conventional silicone-only acquisition.
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