[Regional iterative phase extraction Dixon water-lipid separation method based on second order differential quality weighting].

OBJECTIVE

To propose a regional iterative phase extraction Dixon method based on second order difference quality weighting (SOD-RIPE) for improving water-lipid separation in heterogeneous magnetic field.

OBJECTIVE

The in-phase angle of the asymmetric in-phase and opposite phase image matrix was eliminated using the Dixon's signal model to obtain and , from which the possible water signal magnitude (B, S) and in-phase and opposite phase difference (, ) was derived using the Cosine law. The phase quality map of was calculated using the second-order difference, and the phase difference was weighted to obtain (, ). The and were iteratively selected to obtain the . The water-fat separation diagram (, ) was obtained using the least square method to bring the into the Dixon signal model.

OBJECTIVE

Water-lipid separation was performed using 1000 pairs of in- and opposite-phase images on a Philips in Genia II 3.0T magnetic resonance scanner. The SOD-RIPE algorithm achieved better separation and stability than the automatic growth method and RIPE in all the parts of the body and in the stability test, and had a similar performance to mDixon-XD algorithm.

OBJECTIVE

SOD-RIPE can achieve robust water-fat separation with a good stability and can be used as a general Dixon water-fat separation method.