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Significant precision improvement for temperature mapping

✍ Scribed by Lin Li; Erik M. Shapiro; John S. Leigh

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2001
Tongue
English
Weight
184 KB
Volume
46
Category
Article
ISSN
0740-3194

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

MR temperature measurements are important for applications such as the evaluation of thermal therapies and radiofrequency (RF) coil heating effects. In this work the spherical mean value (SMV) method has been applied to significantly improve the precision of MR temperature mapping in a homogeneous gel phantom. Temperature‐increase maps of the phantom were obtained with three‐dimensional (3D) MR phase difference mapping after heating with the RF coil. The temperature‐increase distribution in most regions in the phantom is a harmonic function with the mean value property. Based on this property, the precision of temperature‐increase maps was improved up to sixfold with the SMV method. Comparison of this method with conventional smoothing, further precision improvement, and the in vivo application of the SMV method are discussed. Magn Reson Med 4:678–682, 2001. © 2001 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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