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Attenuation Effects of MR Headphones During Brain PET/MR Studies

Aaron Ferguson, Jonathan McConathy, Yi Su, Debra Hewing and Richard Laforest
Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology June 2014, 42 (2) 93-100; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2967/jnmt.113.131995
Aaron Ferguson
1Department of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapeutics, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri; and
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Jonathan McConathy
2Department of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
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Yi Su
2Department of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
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Debra Hewing
1Department of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapeutics, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri; and
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Richard Laforest
2Department of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
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    (A and B) Side view of headphones showing 12 fiducial markers (A) and top view of headphones with fiducials (B). (C and D) Headphones secured to Styrofoam (C) and placed in head coil (D).

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    (A) Three-liter radioactive phantom without headphones demonstrates uniform distribution of activity. (B) Three-liter radioactive phantom demonstrates decrease in activity in center region with headphones on uncorrected. (C) Three-liter phantom using corrected μ maps demonstrates uniform activity concentration with headphones on. (D) Large, circular region of interest replicated across all transverse planes. (E) Five small, circular regions of interest replicated across all transverse planes. 1 = center; 2 = right; 3 = left; 4 = upper; 5 = lower.

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    (A) View of coronal CT template created from high-resolution CT transmission scan. (B) Transaxial CT template. (C) Axial view of 57Co transmission scan. (D) Axial 57Co transmission with representative view of how regions of interest were drawn on headphones and water-filled centrifuge tube. (E) Axial view of modified μ map. (F) Coronal view of modified μ map. 1 = center; 2 = right; 3 = left.

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    (A) Difference in activity concentration between headphones off, on, and corrected for each slice of phantom. (B) Percentage difference in counts between headphones off vs. on and off vs. corrected for each slice of phantom. (C) Difference in activity concentration of the 5 regions between headphones off and on for each slice of bottle. (D) Difference in activity concentration of the 5 regions between headphones off and corrected for each slice of bottle. (E) Percentage difference between headphones on compared with off of the 5 smaller regions of interest. (F) Percentage difference in activity concentration using corrected μ map in headphone area (slices 20–100). Cor = corrected. A color version of this figure is available as a supplemental file at http://tech.snmjournals.org.

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    Maximum and average percentage difference for off vs. on and off vs. corrected. (A) Large regions of interest (slices 20–100). (B) Small regions of interest (slices 20–100).

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    (A) Coronal image showing ratio of measured activity concentration from PET scan acquired with headphones over scan without headphones. (B) Coronal image showing ratio of activity concentration of patient PET scan with headphone attenuation correction over scan without headphones. A color version of this figure is available as a supplemental file at http://tech.snmjournals.org.

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    Acquisition Parameters

    MR parametersMRAC Dixon ACMRAC UTE ACMPRAGE
    Acquisition time (min)00:1901:4004:45
    Voxel size (mm)2.6 × 2.6 × 3.121.6 × 1.6 × 1.61.1 × 1.1 × 1.2
    OrientationCoronalTransverseSagittal
    Slices per slab128192176
    Matrix size192 × 126192 × 192256 × 256
    Field of view (mm)500300270
    Repetition time (ms)3.6011.942,100
    First and second echo time (ms)1.23 and 2.460.07 and 2.462.95
    Flip angle10.0°10.0°9.0
    Parallel acquisition technique modeGRAPPA 2 (Siemens)NoneGRAPPA 2 (Siemens)
    PET parameters
     Emission scan5 min
     Reconstruction iterations3
     Reconstruction subsets21
     Postreconstruction filterGaussian, 4 mm
     Number of slices127
     Matrix256 × 256
     OrientationTransverse
     Voxel size (mm)1.4 × 1.4 × 2.03
    • AC = attenuation correction; GRAPPA = generalized autocalibrating partially parallel acquisition; MRAC = MR-based attenuation correction.

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    Percentage Difference in Counts in Selected Human Brain Regions

    Structure or regionDifference before correctionDifference after correction
    Cerebellar–cortical−14.4%0.2%
    Inferior temporal−14.0%2.1%
    Temporal pole−12.6%2.2%
    Fusiform−11.5%1.6%
    Superior temporal−7.8%2.8%
    Medial orbitofrontal−6.7%−0.2%
    Caudate−3.6%2.2%
    Rostral anterior cingulate−2.4%3.0%
    Superior frontal0.3%3.9%
    Cuneus0.3%2.9%
    Inferior parietal0.9%4.2%
    Precuneus1.0%4.0%

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