医用画像情報学会雑誌
Online ISSN : 1880-4977
Print ISSN : 0910-1543
ISSN-L : 0910-1543
26 巻, 1 号
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  • 俵 紀行, 新田 收, 来間 弘展, 新津 守, 伊藤 彰義
    2009 年 26 巻 1 号 p. 1-7
    発行日: 2009年
    公開日: 2009/03/18
    ジャーナル フリー
    Exercise induced muscle activity is essential in sports medicine. The previous studies proposed muscle functional magnetic resonance imaging (mfMRI) which visualized muscle activity. However, the mfMRI used the spin echo (SE) sequence, and SE requires several minutes for acquisition time. The purpose of this study was to judge the feasibility of the mfMRI using ultrafast imaging (fast-acquired mfMRI: fast-mfMRI) . The 10 subjects performed 200 repetitions of ankle plantar flexion. T2 relaxation curves of muscle were compared with multiple spin echo (MSE) and spin-echo echo-planar-imaging (SE-EPI) . The fast-mfMRI was the images which the processed images fused into the morphologic images. In the result, there was no problem using the T2 relaxations MR signals from SE-EPI in the range of the short TE. In the fused images, the areas of activated muscle in the fast-mfMRI from the SE-EPI images were in good agreement with that of the fast-mfMRI from the MSE images. In the geometric location of the fast-mfMRI, there was no major difference between the morphologic image and the functional image. Morphological and functional information from the fast-mfMRI can be applied to the human trunk which has a limited scan time.
  • —同一関心領域法におけるSD mapの補正法の開発—
    林 則夫, 峰広 香織, 作田 啓太, 宮地 利明, 真田 茂, 鈴木 正行, 松浦 幸広, 河原 和博, 山本 友行
    2009 年 26 巻 1 号 p. 8-12
    発行日: 2009年
    公開日: 2009/03/18
    ジャーナル フリー
    Signal-to-Noise ratio (SNR) is an important quantity factor used to describe the performance of a magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. However, it is difficult to measure accurately the SNR in clinical parallel MR images. This study is to develop a SNR measurement method using a modified identical region of interest (ROI) technique in clinical parallel MR images. Phantom experiments were performed on a 1.5 and 3.0 Tesla MRI machine to compare three different methods of SNR measurements. We also performed SNR measurements in clinical cases. The method is consisted of the following four steps: 1) Calculation of standard deviation (SD) map 2) Edge detection and removal on SD map 3) Interpolation of the removed edge region 4) Calculation of SNR map using the interpolated SD map. Our developed method were approximately consistent with those of other SNR measurement methods in both phantom and clinical images. In addition, the results of our developed method could measure the SNR in the edge region in parallel MR images. Our method makes it possible to simply and accurately analyze SNR of the clinical parallel image with a single scan.
  • 放射性同位元素 (RI) 計数値との比較
    田中 利恵, 真田 茂, 藤村 政樹, 安井 正英, 林 則夫, 岡本 博之, 辻 志郎, 南部 祐子, 松井 修
    2009 年 26 巻 1 号 p. 13-16
    発行日: 2009年
    公開日: 2009/03/18
    ジャーナル フリー
    X-ray translucency of the lungs changes depending on inspired volume. In this study, the usefulness of measuring changes in pixel value on dynamic chest radiographs was assessed in comparison with count of radioactive isotope. In 12 abnormal subjects, there was a good correlation between them (r=0.77) . In eight normal controls, the changes in average pixel value measured in lung unit were almost equal in the right and left lungs, which was consistent with normal respiratory physiology. The results indicated that ventilation performance could be evaluated based on the changes in pixel value on dynamic chest radiographs.
  • 大野 直樹, 宮地 利明, 間瀬 光人, 笠井 治昌, 菅 博人, 朝日 美幸, 川野 誠, 原 眞咲, 芝本 雄太, 上田 優
    2009 年 26 巻 1 号 p. 17-20
    発行日: 2009年
    公開日: 2009/03/18
    ジャーナル フリー
    We evaluated regional apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) change of the brain during the cardiac cycle (ΔADC) . On a 1.5-T MRI, ECG-triggered single-shot diffusion echo planar imaging was used with sensitivity encoding, half scan and rectangular FOV techniques to minimize the bulk motion such as brain pulsation, i.e., data-sampling window of 3ms. ΔADC image was calculated from maximum minus minimum ADC value of all cardiac phase images on a pixel-by-pixel basis. We determined ΔADC in regions of parietal, frontal, temporal and occipital white matters (WM) in twelve healthy volunteers. Moreover, we assessed influences of scan parameters on ΔADC. ΔADC was affected by b-values, but unaffected by voxel size. There was no significant correlation between ΔADC and ADC. The ΔADC values in parietal WM at centrum semiovale level were significantly higher than those in temporal WM at basal ganglia level, although there was no significant difference in ADC values between among WM regions. ΔADC analysis using appropriate scan parameter makes it possible to noninvasively obtain new and more detailed information on the regional brain condition.
  • 笠井 治昌, 宮地 利明, 朝日 美幸, 加藤 勝也
    2009 年 26 巻 1 号 p. 21-24
    発行日: 2009年
    公開日: 2009/03/18
    ジャーナル フリー
    The aim of our study was to compare between fat-suppression method with adiabatic pulse and that without adiabatic pulse, i.e., spectral presaturation with inversion recovery (SPIR) , when radio frequency (RF) penetration affected degree of fat-suppression. We determined the signal change and image uniformity in fat-suppressed area under varying the coil loading with sodium chloride solutions. The adiabatic pulse method showed greater degree of fat-suppression and image uniformity more than SPIR under especially higher density of sodium chloride solutions or a big body if inversion time of the adiabatic pulse method was appropriately set. The adiabatic pulse method makes it possible to evenly suppress the fat signal without affecting the RF penetration.
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