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Nature of the Intracellular-contrast-enhancing Fat-saturated T1-weighted Gradient-echo (ICE-TIGRE) Sequence: A Fat-suppressed T1-weighted Technique with Motion-sensitised Driven-equilibrium for Improved Contrast Enhancement in Liver Imaging.
Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences : MRMS 2024 Februrary 3
Gadoxetic acid is both an extracellular- and hepatocyte-specific contrast agent. Signals from the extracellular space may lower the contrast between lesions and the surrounding hepatic parenchyma. To improve hepatocyte-specific enhancement, we developed an intracellular contrast-enhancing fat-saturated T1-weighted gradient-echo nature of the sequence (ICE-TIGRE). It incorporates the motion-sensitized driven-equilibrium (MSDE) pulse to suppress signals from the blood flow. We investigated the optimal ICE-TIGRE scanning parameters, i.e., the order of the MSDE and the fat saturation pulses, the duration time, and the b value of the MSDE pulse, using a phantom and three volunteers without applying gadoxetic acid. ICE-TIGRE successfully increased the contrast between the liver parenchyma and the portal vein. To maintain fat saturation, the preparation pulse order should be MSDE-fat saturation. A duration time of 21 ms should be applied to minimize the effect of the T2 factor on the T1 contrast, and a b value of 60 s/mm2 should be applied to maximize the diffusion contrast for ICE-TIGRE with the imaging system used in this study.
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