Dixon techniques for water and fat imaging

J Ma - Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging: An Official …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
In 1984, Dixon published a first paper on a simple spectroscopic imaging technique for
water and fat separation. The technique acquires two separate images with a modified spin …

Iterative decomposition of water and fat with echo asymmetry and least‐squares estimation (IDEAL): application with fast spin‐echo imaging

SB Reeder, AR Pineda, Z Wen… - … in Medicine: An …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Chemical shift based methods are often used to achieve uniform water–fat separation that is
insensitive to Bo inhomogeneities. Many spin‐echo (SE) or fast SE (FSE) approaches …

Multicoil Dixon chemical species separation with an iterative least‐squares estimation method

SB Reeder, Z Wen, H Yu, AR Pineda… - … in Medicine: An …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
This work describes a new approach to multipoint Dixon fat–water separation that is
amenable to pulse sequences that require short echo time (TE) increments, such as steady …

Optimal fat suppression in head and neck MRI: comparison of multipoint Dixon with 2 different fat-suppression techniques, spectral presaturation and inversion …

S Gaddikeri, M Mossa-Basha… - American Journal …, 2018 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Uniform complete fat suppression is essential for
identification and characterization of most head and pathology. Our aim was to compare the …

Fat quantification using three-point dixon technique: in vitro validation1

A Kovanlikaya, C Guclu, C Desai, R Becerra… - Academic radiology, 2005 - Elsevier
RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: To test the repeatability, reproducibility and accuracy of the
three-point Dixon (3PD) sequence for estimating true fat volume ratios using a fat/water …

Homodyne reconstruction and IDEAL water–fat decomposition

SB Reeder, BA Hargreaves, H Yu… - Magnetic Resonance in …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Multipoint water–fat separation methods have received renewed interest because they
provide uniform separation of water and fat despite the presence of B0 and B1 field …

A single‐point Dixon technique for fat‐suppressed fast 3D gradient‐echo imaging with a flexible echo time

J Ma - Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging: An Official …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To develop a single‐point Dixon (SPD) technique that requires only data of a single
echo with a flexible echo time, and to demonstrate its use for fat‐suppressed, T1‐weighted …

T2‐weighted spine imaging with a fast three‐point Dixon technique: comparison with chemical shift selective fat suppression

J Ma, SK Singh, AJ Kumar, NE Leeds… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To develop a phased‐array coil‐compatible, fast three‐point Dixon (TPD)
technique, and compare its performance in T2‐weighted spine imaging with that of the …

Improving fat-suppressed T2-weighted imaging of the head and neck with 2 fast spin-echo dixon techniques: initial experiences

J Ma, EF Jackson, AJ Kumar… - American Journal of …, 2009 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
Two modified fast spin-echo (FSE) techniques (a 2-point and a single-scan triple-echo
Dixon) were used for T2-weighted imaging of the head and neck in 7 patients along with …

Fast three-point Dixon MR imaging using low-resolution images for phase correction: a comparison with chemical shift selective fat suppression for pediatric …

FJ Rybicki, T Chung, J Reid… - American Journal of …, 2001 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study is to describe and to implement a new fast three-point
Dixon MR imaging sequence with online image reconstruction, and to compare this …