Toward real-time temperature monitoring in fat and aqueous tissue during magnetic resonance-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound using a three-dimensional proton resonance frequency T1 method

• Published in: Magnetic resonance in medicine Vol. 72; no. 1; pp. 178 - 187
• Main Authors: Diakite, Mahamadou, Odéen, Henrik, Todd, Nick, Payne, Allison, Parker, Dennis L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.07.2014; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Adipose Tissue - surgery; Algorithms; Animals; aqueous tissue; Body Water; Echo-Planar Imaging - methods; fat; High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Ablation; Humans; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; Imaging, Three-Dimensional; In Vitro Techniques; Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Interventional - methods; Phantoms, Imaging; Protons; Signal-To-Noise Ratio; Swine; Temperature; fat; temperature; aqueous tissue

Purpose To present a three‐dimensional (3D) segmented echoplanar imaging (EPI) pulse sequence implementation that provides simultaneously the proton resonance frequency shift temperature of aqueous tissue and the longitudinal relaxation time (T1) of fat during thermal ablation. Methods The hybrid se...