Confounding factors in breast magnetic resonance fingerprinting: B1+, slice profile, and diffusion effects

• Published in: Magnetic resonance in medicine Vol. 85; no. 4; pp. 1865 - 1880
• Main Authors: Nolte, Teresa, Scholten, Hannah, Gross‐Weege, Nicolas, Amthor, Thomas, Koken, Peter, Doneva, Mariya, Schulz, Volkmar
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.04.2021
• Subjects: Aliasing; bias; Breast; Breasts; Confounding (Statistics); confounding effects; Diffusion; Diffusion effects; Fingerprinting; Inhomogeneity; Magnetic resonance; magnetic resonance fingerprinting; Mathematical models; Parameters; quantitative imaging; Reconstruction

Purpose Magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) offers rapid quantitative imaging but may be subject to confounding effects (CE) if these are not included in the model‐based reconstruction. This study characterizes the influence of in‐plane B1+, slice profile and diffusion effects on T1 and T2 estim...