Keywords: Electromagnetic Tissue Properties, Contrast Mechanisms
Motivation: Conductivity reflects ionic composition (sodium), providing critical insights into various diseases. QCM can offer this information, but there is currently no effective technique for MSK tissues with short T2.
Goal(s): The aim of this study is to develop UTE-QCM using UTE-DESS and validate its feasibility.
Approach: S+ and S- images from UTE-DESS were utilized to estimate the B1+ phase. Two QCM methods (parabolic fitting and integral-based methods) were investigated.
Results: Integral-based QCM demonstrated improved noise-robustness. In a sodium phantom, the estimated conductivity showed high linearity with sodium concentrations. In the knee, the generated conductivity map detected both long and short T2 tissues.
Impact: UTE-QCM has the potential to provide a new quantitative imaging tool targeting short T2 tissues in the MSK system, facilitating the diagnosis and prognosis of joint disorders such as osteoarthritis and tumors such as osteosarcoma.
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