OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to compare metal artifact reduction techniques at 1.5-T and 3-T MRI. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A titanium plate with steel screws was placed in a freshly harvested pig leg. The leg was imaged with 1.5-T and 3-T MRI. A T2-weighted turbo spin-echo sequence was used with echo-train lengths of 8, 16, 32, and 64 and a constant readout bandwidth of 31.2 kHz. The images were compared qualitatively, and the optimal echo-train length was selected. Images were acquired at the optimal echo-train length with four different readout bandwidths. Artifact was measured quantitatively, and image quality was ranked qualitatively. The qualitatively best image acquired at 1.5 T was compared with the qualitatively highest-ranked image acquired at 3 T. RESULTS: At both 1.5 T and 3 T, optimal images of equal quality were produced at echo-train lengths of 8 and 16. At higher readout bandwidths, there was quantitatively less artifact. The qualitatively best images were acquired at a readout bandwidth of 31.2 kHz at 1.5 T and 62.5 kHz at 3 T (Cronbach's alpha=1.00). The optimal image at 3 T was qualitatively superior to that at 1.5 T. CONCLUSION: Optimizing image acquisition parameters in this phantom model resulted in similar quantitative susceptibility artifact at 3 T and 1.5 T and better qualitative images at 3 T than at 1.5 T.
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to compare metal artifact reduction techniques at 1.5-T and 3-T MRI. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A titanium plate with steel screws was placed in a freshly harvested pig leg. The leg was imaged with 1.5-T and 3-T MRI. A T2-weighted turbo spin-echo sequence was used with echo-train lengths of 8, 16, 32, and 64 and a constant readout bandwidth of 31.2 kHz. The images were compared qualitatively, and the optimal echo-train length was selected. Images were acquired at the optimal echo-train length with four different readout bandwidths. Artifact was measured quantitatively, and image quality was ranked qualitatively. The qualitatively best image acquired at 1.5 T was compared with the qualitatively highest-ranked image acquired at 3 T. RESULTS: At both 1.5 T and 3 T, optimal images of equal quality were produced at echo-train lengths of 8 and 16. At higher readout bandwidths, there was quantitatively less artifact. The qualitatively best images were acquired at a readout bandwidth of 31.2 kHz at 1.5 T and 62.5 kHz at 3 T (Cronbach's alpha=1.00). The optimal image at 3 T was qualitatively superior to that at 1.5 T. CONCLUSION: Optimizing image acquisition parameters in this phantom model resulted in similar quantitative susceptibility artifact at 3 T and 1.5 T and better qualitative images at 3 T than at 1.5 T.
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