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Abstract #4632

Free-breathing 3D Radial DIXON Look-Locker sequence for whole-liver simultaneous quantification of water/fat separated T1 and PDFF

Yu Ueda1, Yoshihiko Fukukura2, Kazunori Moriya2, Shigeru Shibata2, Kota Amo1, Makoto Obara1, Masami Yoneyama1, Jihun Kwon1, Tsutomu Tamada2, and Marc Van Cauteren3
1Philips Japan, Tokyo, Japan, 2Department of Radiology, Kawasaki Medical School, Okayama, Japan, 3Philips Healthcare, Tokyo, Japan

Synopsis

Keywords: Liver, Liver

Motivation: T1 and PDFF mapping, which could serve as imaging biomarkers for liver disease, require breath-holds; T1 mapping commonly used in clinical practice, such as MOLLI, has limited spatial coverage. In addition, the presence of liver fat reduces T1 accuracy.

Goal(s): Our goal is to enable simultaneous whole liver water/fat separated T1 and PDFF quantification with clinically acceptable accuracy without breath-holds.

Approach: We introduced the 3D Radial DIXON LL sequence and validated in phantom and in vivo.

Results: Free-breathing 3D Radial Dixon LL sequence results in a proportional bias for T1 measurement and the fixed bias for PDFF measurement compared to current standard techniques.

Impact: The 3D Radial Dixon LL sequence did not result in sufficiently good agreement with reference methods for water/fat separated T1 and PDFF, suggesting that further technical validation and the optimization of imaging parameters will be needed.

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