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The Evaluation of Imaging Quality Depending the Shift of the Central Axis in FOCUS DWI Investigation

Focus DWI 검사에서 중심축 이동에 따른 화질 평가

  • Kim, Younghwa (Department of Radiological Science, Dongshin University) ;
  • Jeong, Moontaeg (Department of Radiological Science, Dongshin University) ;
  • Choi, Namgil (Department of Radiological Science, Dongshin University)
  • 김용화 (동신대학교 방사선학과) ;
  • 정문택 (동신대학교 방사선학과) ;
  • 최남길 (동신대학교 방사선학과)
  • Received : 2018.09.20
  • Accepted : 2018.10.31
  • Published : 2018.10.31
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Abstract

The problem that the existing the magnetic resonance image (MRI) was prone to have not only long readout duration and low bandwidth in the phase-encode direction, but also geometric distortion was pointed out. The purpose of this study is to identify the usefulness of FOCUS-DWI through comparing FOCUS-DWI with the Conventional-DWI on a degree of uniformity and artifacts caused by the distance change in the central axis within the magnetic field. In terms of artifacts, there happened irregular striped artifacts in the Conventional-DWI technique, which in particular, more often arose in the central axis. Also, the overlap of imaging drastically increased. By contrast, there were no irregular striped artifacts in the FOCUS-DWI technique. In conclusion, it was found that the FOCUS-DWI technique was superior to the Conventional-DWI technique in terms of artifacts, the overlap of imaging, and a degree of uniformity. In addition, there was no difference of the change in distance from the central axis between the FOCUS-DWI technique and the Conventional-DWI technique. Thus, it is considered the FOCUS-DWI technique having less imaging distortion and high image quality will be highly clinically used.

기존의 자기공명영상검사에서 문제점으로 지적되어 왔던 위상부호화 방향에서의 긴 판독시간과 낮은 대역폭과 함께 기하학적 왜곡의 경향이 있어 이러한 영상왜곡을 감소하기 위한 여러 방법 중 FOCUS-DWI가 있다. 본 논문은 선택적인 위상 방향 및 슬라이스를 이용하는 FOCUS-DWI가 자기장 내 중심축에서 거리변화에 따른 인공물, 균일도를 기존의 Conventional-DWI와 비교하여 그에 대한 유용성을 확인하고자 하였다. 인공물 발생에 대한 결과는 Conventional-DWI 기법에서 불규칙적인 줄무늬 인공물이 발생하였는데 중심축에서 인공물의 발생이 심하게 나타났고, 영상의 겹침 정도가 급격하게 증가하였다. 하지만 FOCUS-DWI 기법은 줄무늬 모양의 인공물 발생이 나타나지 않았고 영상의 겹침 정도도 적게 나타났으며, 영역별 신호측정에 대한 균일도 결과는 중심축에서 거리의 변화에 관계없이 FOCUS-DWI가 훨씬 우수한 기법으로 나타났다. 결론적으로 FOCUS-DWI 기법은 인공물, 영상의 겹침 정도, 균일도 측정에서 Conventional-DWI 기법보다 우수한 결과를 보였고, 거리의 변화에 따른 두 기법에서는 차이가 없게 나타났다. 따라서 FOCUS-DWI 기법은 영상의 왜곡 정도가 적고 화질이 우수하여 임상에서 활용도가 높을 것이라 사료된다.

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