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PLOS ONE
卷 9, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099676
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- Centre d'Imagerie BioMedicale (CIBM) of the UNIL
- Centre d'Imagerie BioMedicale (CIBM) of the UNIGE
- Centre d'Imagerie BioMedicale (CIBM) of the HUG
- Centre d'Imagerie BioMedicale (CIBM) of the CHUV
- Centre d'Imagerie BioMedicale (CIBM) of the EPFL
- Leenaards foundation
- Louis-Jeantet foundation
Purpose: To suppress the noise, by sacrificing some of the signal homogeneity for numerical stability, in uniform T1 weighted (T1w) images obtained with the magnetization prepared 2 rapid gradient echoes sequence (MP2RAGE) and to compare the clinical utility of these robust T1w images against the uniform T1w images. Materials and Methods: 8 healthy subjects (29.0 +/- 4.1 years; 6 Male), who provided written consent, underwent two scan sessions within a 24 hour period on a 7T head-only scanner. The uniform and robust T1w image volumes were calculated inline on the scanner. Two experienced radiologists qualitatively rated the images for: general image quality; 7T specific artefacts; and, local structure definition. Voxel-based and volume-based morphometry packages were used to compare the segmentation quality between the uniform and robust images. Statistical differences were evaluated by using a positive sided Wilcoxon rank test. Results: The robust image suppresses background noise inside and outside the skull. The inhomogeneity introduced was ranked as mild. The robust image was significantly ranked higher than the uniform image for both observers (observer 1/2, p-value = 0.0006/0.0004). In particular, an improved delineation of the pituitary gland, cerebellar lobes was observed in the robust versus uniform T1w image. The reproducibility of the segmentation results between repeat scans improved (p-value = 0.0004) from an average volumetric difference across structures of approximate to 6.6% to approximate to 2.4% for the uniform image and robust T1w image respectively. Conclusions: The robust T1w image enables MP2RAGE to produce, clinically familiar T1w images, in addition to T1 maps, which can be readily used in uniform morphometry packages.
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