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Abstract #4558

Ultrashort Echo Time Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (UTE-QSM) of The Human Knee with Motion Registration

Jiyo S Athertya1, Dina Moazamian1, Bhavsimran Singh Malhi1, Saeed Jerban1, Annette Von Drygalski2, Eric Y Chang1,3, Jiang Du1,4,5, and Hyungseok Jang1
1UCSD, San Diego, CA, United States, 2Dept of Medicine, UCSD, San Diego, CA, United States, 3Radiology Service, Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, United States, 4Research Service, Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, United States, 5Dept of Bioengineering, UCSD, San Diego, CA, United States

Synopsis

Keywords: Motion Correction, Quantitative Susceptibility mapping

Motivation: There is a need for improving UTE-QSM in the human knee joint, which is prone to motion artifacts due to multiple repeated scans required for a short echo spacing.

Goal(s): To investigate the efficacy of motion registration-based UTE-QSM for knee joint imaging.

Approach: We employed rigid affine-based registration and non-rigid deformable registration based on B-spline as a pre-processing step for generating the QSM data.

Results: It is seen that the registration process helps in reducing streaking artifacts and improving UTE-QSM of the knee joint.

Impact: The UTE-QSM technique of the human knee joint is a potentially sensitive biomarker for the diagnosis of musculoskeletal diseases. Motion registration can improve the accuracy of UTE-QSM and hence likely enhance the diagnostic power.

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