Xiaowei Zou1, Venkata V Chebrolu2, and Nakul Gupta3
1Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc., Houston, TX, United States, 2Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc., Rochester, MN, United States, 3Department of Radiology, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, United States
1Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc., Houston, TX, United States, 2Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc., Rochester, MN, United States, 3Department of Radiology, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, United States
UNICORN is a promising method to improve uniformity and
contrast of 7T clinical fat-suppressed TSE images of the human knee.
Figure 2: Exemplary images of the original and UNICORN+B1
images of RRx1 to RRx8 of (A) FA = 126o and (B) FA = 163o.
Each image was automatically windowed individually.
Figure 1: Quantitative ROI analysis and qualitative
clinical evaluation for the eight different UNICORN settings RRx1 to RRx8 of FA
= 126o (top) and FA = 163o (bottom). Each setting
reconstructed three image series: original without UNICORN and B1 filtering
(original, red), UNICORN without B1 filtering (UNICORN, green), and UNICORN
with B1 filtering (UNICORN+B1, blue).
