Simon M F Triphan1,2,3, Bertram J Jobst2,3, Felix A Breuer1, Mark O Wielpütz2,3, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor2,3, Jürgen Biederer2,3,4, Peter M Jakob1,5. 1. Research Centre Magnetic Resonance Bavaria e.V.(MRB), Würzburg, Germany. 2. Translational Lung Research Centre, member of the German Centre for Lung Research (DZL), Gieβen, Germany. 3. Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. 4. Radiologie Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany. 5. Department of Experimental Physics 5, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: This work is intended to demonstrate that T1 measured in the lungs depends on the echo time (TE) used. Measuring lung T1 can be used to gain quantitative morphological and functional information. It is also shown that this dependence is particularly visible when using an ultra-short TE (UTE) sequence with TE well below 1 ms for T1 quantification in lung tissue, rather than techniques with TE on the order of 1-2 ms. METHODS: The lungs of 12 healthy volunteers (aged 22 to 33 years) were examined at 1.5 Tesla. A segmented inversion recovery Look-Locker multi-echo sequence based on two-dimensional UTE was used for independent T1 quantification at five TEs between TE1 = 70 μs and TE5 = 2.3 ms. RESULTS: The measured T1 was found to increase gradually with TE from 1060 ± 40 ms at TE1 to 1389 ± 53 ms at TE5 (P < 0.001). CONCLUSION: Measuring T1 at ultra-short echo times reveals a significant dependence of observed T1 on the echo time. Thus, any comparison of T1 values should also consider the TEs used. However, this dependence on TE could also be exploited to gain additional diagnostic information on the tissue compartments in the lung.
BACKGROUND: This work is intended to demonstrate that T1 measured in the lungs depends on the echo time (TE) used. Measuring lung T1 can be used to gain quantitative morphological and functional information. It is also shown that this dependence is particularly visible when using an ultra-short TE (UTE) sequence with TE well below 1 ms for T1 quantification in lung tissue, rather than techniques with TE on the order of 1-2 ms. METHODS: The lungs of 12 healthy volunteers (aged 22 to 33 years) were examined at 1.5 Tesla. A segmented inversion recovery Look-Locker multi-echo sequence based on two-dimensional UTE was used for independent T1 quantification at five TEs between TE1 = 70 μs and TE5 = 2.3 ms. RESULTS: The measured T1 was found to increase gradually with TE from 1060 ± 40 ms at TE1 to 1389 ± 53 ms at TE5 (P < 0.001). CONCLUSION: Measuring T1 at ultra-short echo times reveals a significant dependence of observed T1 on the echo time. Thus, any comparison of T1 values should also consider the TEs used. However, this dependence on TE could also be exploited to gain additional diagnostic information on the tissue compartments in the lung.
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