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Comparison Study of Image Performance with Contrast Agent Contents for Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Journal of Magnetics, Volume 21, Number 2, 30 Jun 2016, Pages 281-285
Youngjin Lee (Department of Radiological Science), Min Hyeok Choi (Department of Radiological Science), Hee Jin Goh (Department of Radiology, Asan Medical Center), Dong-Kyoon Han * (Department of Radiological Science)
Abstract

The purpose of study was to evaluate SNR and CNR with different contrast agent contents (1.0 mmol/mL
gadobutrol and 0.5 mmol/mL gadoterate meglumine) for spin echo (SE) and 3-dimension contrast-enhanced fast field echo (3D CE-FFE) pulse sequences. In this study, we compared the SNR and the CNR between 0.5 mmol/mL gadoterate meglumine and 1.0 mmol/mL gadobutrol according to the concentration of contrast agent in brain MRI. When we compared between SE and 3D CE-FFE pulse sequences, the higher SNR and CNR using 3D CE-FFE pulse sequence can be acquire regardless of contrast agent contents. Also, a statistically significant difference was found for SNR and CNR between all protocols. In conclusion, our results demonstrated that the SNR and CNR have not risen proportionately with contrast agent contents. We hope that these results presented in this paper will contribute to decide contrast agent contents for brain MRI.


 

Keywords: magnetic resonance imaging; quantitative image analysis; MR-angiography (MRA)
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4283/JMAG.2016.21.2.281
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