ArticleMagma (New York, N.Y.)2024
Cranial bone imaging using ultrashort echo-time bone-selective MRI as an alternative to gradient-echo based "black-bone" techniques.
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- Current State-of-the-Art 3D MRI Sequences for Assessing Bone Morphology with Emphasis on Cranial and Spinal Imaging: A Narrative Review.RoFo : Fortschritte auf dem Gebiete der Rontgenstrahlen und der Nuklearmedizin · 2026Review
- DREAMER: Rapid and Simultaneous Multiple Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Solid and Soft Tissue.Magnetic resonance in medicine · 2026Article
- Imaging Modalities in Craniosynostosis: A Systematic Review and Proposal of the ARCANA Protocol for Multimodal Radiation-Free Assessment.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Current Landscape of Short-T2 Imaging Techniques in the Musculoskeletal System: The Past, Present and Future.Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI · 2025Review
- Black bone and CT-like MRI-based delineation of fracture-prone regions in oral and maxillofacial trauma.Oral and maxillofacial surgery · 2025Article
- Three contrasts in 3 min: Rapid, high-resolution, and bone-selective UTE MRI for craniofacial imaging with automated deep-learning skull segmentation.Magnetic resonance in medicine · 2025Article
- Automated craniofacial biometry with 3D T2w fetal MRI.PLOS digital health · 2024Article
- Craniofacial Imaging of Pediatric Patients by Ultrashort Echo-Time Bone-Selective MRI in Comparison to CT.Academic radiology · 2024Article
- MR Cranial Bone Imaging: Evaluation of Both Motion-Corrected and Automated Deep Learning Pseudo-CT Estimated MR Images.AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology · 2024Article
- Neuroimaging in Nonsyndromic Craniosynostosis: Key Concepts to Unlock Innovation.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Automated Craniofacial Biometry with 3D T2w Fetal MRI.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
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objectivesCT is the clinical standard for surgical planning of craniofacial abnormalities in pediatric patients. This study evaluated three MRI cranial bone imaging techniques for their strengths and limitations as a radiation-free alternative to CT.
methodsTen healthy adults were scanned at 3 T with three MRI sequences: dual-radiofrequency and dual-echo ultrashort echo time sequence (DURANDE), zero echo time (ZTE), and gradient-echo (GRE). DURANDE bright-bone images were generated by exploiting bone signal intensity dependence on RF pulse duration and echo time, while ZTE bright-bone images were obtained via logarithmic inversion. Three skull segmentations were derived, and the overlap of the binary masks was quantified using dice similarity coefficient. Craniometric distances were measured, and their agreement was quantified.
resultsThere was good overlap of the three masks and excellent agreement among craniometric distances. DURANDE and ZTE showed superior air-bone contrast (i.e., sinuses) and soft-tissue suppression compared to GRE. DISCUSSIONS: ZTE has low levels of acoustic noise, however, ZTE images had lower contrast near facial bones (e.g., zygomatic) and require effective bias-field correction to separate bone from air and soft-tissue. DURANDE utilizes a dual-echo subtraction post-processing approach to yield bone-specific images, but the sequence is not currently manufacturer-supported and requires scanner-specific gradient-delay corrections.
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