Balanced UTE-SSFP for 19F MR imaging of complex spectra.
2015
Purpose
A novel technique for highly sensitive detection of multiresonant fluorine imaging agents was designed and tested with the use of dual-frequency 19F/1H ultrashort echo times (UTE) sampled with a balanced steady-state free precession (SSFP) pulse sequence and three-dimensional (3D) radial readout.
Methods
Feasibility of 3D radial balanced UTE-SSFP imaging was demonstrated for a phantom comprising liquid perfluorooctyl bromide (PFOB). Sensitivity of the pulse sequence was measured and compared with other sequences imaging the PFOB (CF2)6 line group including UTE radial gradient-echo (GRE) at α = 30°, as well as Cartesian GRE, balanced SSFP, and fast spin-echo (FSE). The PFOB CF3 peak was also sampled with FSE.
Results
The proposed balanced UTE-SSFP technique exhibited a relative detection sensitivity of 51 min−1/2 (α = 30°), at least twice that of other sequence types with either 3D radial (UTE GRE: 20 min−1/2) or Cartesian k-space filling (GRE: 12 min−1/2; FSE: 16 min−1/2; balanced SSFP: 23 min−1/2). In vivo imaging of angiogenesis-targeted PFOB nanoparticles was demonstrated in a rabbit model of cancer on a clinical 3 Tesla scanner.
Conclusion
A new dual 19F/1H balanced UTE-SSFP sequence manifests high SNR, with detection sensitivity more than two-fold better than traditional techniques, and alleviates imaging problems caused by dephasing in complex spectra. Magn Reson Med 74:537–543, 2015. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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