Influence of Off-resonance in myocardial T1-mapping using SSFP based MOLLI method

Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Research

Daniel A Herzka¹  Peter Kellman²  Andrew E Arai²  Michael Schacht Hansen² 

[1] Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA;National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, DHHS, 10 Center Drive MSC-1061, 20892, Bethesda, MD, USA;

关键词: T1 map;    Error;    Off-resonance;    MOLLI;    Shim;    SSFP;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1532-429X-15-63

 received in 2013-06-04, accepted in 2013-07-07,  发布年份 2013

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundMyocardial T1-mapping methods such as MOLLI use SSFP readout and are prone to frequency-dependent error in T1-measurement. A significant error in T1 may result at relatively small off-resonance frequencies that are well within the region without banding artifacts.MethodsThe sensitivity of T1-estimates based on the SSFP based MOLLI sequence to errors in center frequency are calculated by means of a Bloch simulation and validated by phantom measurements. Typical off-resonance errors following local cardiac shimming are determined by field mapping at both 1.5 and 3.0T. In vivo examples demonstrate the artifactual appearance of T1-maps in the presence of off-resonance variation.ResultsOff-resonance varied 61.8 ± 15.5 Hz (mean ± SD, n = 18) across the heart at 1.5T and 125.0 ± 40.6 Hz (mean ± SD, n = 18) at 3.0T. For T1 = 1000 ms, the variation in T1 due to off-resonance variation was approximately 20 ms at 62 Hz, and > 50 ms at 125 Hz.ConclusionsRegional variations due to the inability to completely shim the B0-field variation around the heart appear as regional variation in T1, which is artifactual.

【 授权许可】

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