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Artifactual microhemorrhage generated by susceptibility weighted image
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Li N
; Wang WT
; Pham DL
; Butman JA
J Magn Reson Imaging
2015[Jun]; 41
(6
): 1695-700
PMID25143262
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BACKGROUND: To report that artifactual microhemorrhages are introduced by the
two-dimensional (2D) homodyne filtering method of generating susceptibility
weighted images (SWI) when open-ended fringelines (OEF) are present in phase
data. METHODS: SWI data from 28 traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients was
obtained on a 3 tesla clinical Siemens scanner using both the product 3D gradient
echo sequence (GRE) with generalized autocalibrating partially parallel
acquisition acceleration and an in-house developed segmented echo planar imaging
(sEPI) sequence without GRAPPA acceleration. SWI processing included (i) 2D
homodyne method implemented on the scanner console and (ii) a 3D Fourier-based
phase unwrapping followed by 3D high pass filtering. Original and enhanced
magnitude and phase images were carefully reviewed for sites of type III OEFs and
microhemorrhages by a neuroradiologist on a PACS workstation. RESULTS: Nineteen
of 28 (68%) phase datasets acquired using GRAPPA-accelerated GRE acquisition
demonstrated type III OEFs. In SWI images, artifactual microhemorrhages were
found on 17 of 19 (89%) cases generated using 2D homodyne processing. Application
of a 3D Fourier-based unwrapping method prior HP filtering minimized the
appearance of the phase singularities in the enhanced phase, and did not generate
microhemorrhage-like artifacts in magnitude images. CONCLUSION: The 2D homodyne
filtering method may introduce artifacts mimicking intracranial microhemorrhages
in SWI images when type III OEFs are present in phase images. Such artifacts
could lead to overestimation of pathology, e.g., TBI. This work demonstrates that
3D phase unwrapping methods minimize this artifact. However, methods to properly
combine phase across coils are needed to eliminate this artifact.