title: Robust fat suppression at 3T in high-resolution diffusion-weighted single-shot echo-planar imaging of human brain.
abstract: Single-shot echo-planar imaging is the most common acquisition technique for whole-brain diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) studies in vivo. Higher field MRI systems are readily available and advantageous for acquiring DTI due to increased signal. One of the practical issues for DTI with single-shot echo-planar imaging at high-field is incomplete fat suppression resulting in a chemically shifted fat artifact within the brain image. Unsuppressed fat is especially detrimental in DTI because the diffusion coefficient of fat is two orders of magnitude lower than that of parenchyma, producing brighter appearing fat artifacts with greater diffusion weighting. In this work, several fat suppression techniques were tested alone and in combination with the goal of finding a method that provides robust fat suppression and can be used in high-resolution single-shot echo-planar imaging DTI studies. Combination of chemical shift saturation with slice-select gradient reversal within a dual-spin-echo diffusion preparation period was found to provide robust fat suppression at 3 T.
authors: Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. sarllsjo@mail.nih.gov
authors: Joelle E
authors: JE
authors: Sarlls
authors: Carlo
authors: C
authors: Pierpaoli
authors: S Lalith
authors: SL
authors: Talagala
authors: Wen-Ming
authors: WM
authors: Luh
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