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12: MRI Artifacts Flashcards

1
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Aliasing artifact is also called…

A

Wrap artifact

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Wrap or Aliasing artifact: Cause -

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when the area of anatomy exceeds the FOV margins in the phase direction with no/limited oversampling and no phase wrap option off

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Wrap or Aliasing artifact: Appearance:

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area of slice that would be cut would be folded back into the image in the phase direction

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Wrap or Aliasing artifact: Compensation:

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1: select “no phase wrap/ oversampling” before scanning
2: increase FOV to extend past anatomy in the phase direction
3: Place Saturation pulse on anatomy extending past FOV (least effective)

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5
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Adding “no phase wrap” adds….

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time

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Truncation artifact is also called

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Ringing artifact

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Ringing / Truncation artifact:

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Incomplete sampling of high contrast borders

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Ringing / Truncation artifact: Appearance-

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Oscillating waves parallel with high contrast border
Commonly found on SAG T2 of C spine due to high contrast edges between the thecal sac and spinal cord

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9
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Ringing / Truncation artifact: Compensation:

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1: Increase matrix ( increase matrix = decrease truncation )
2: Select a raw data filler ( 2D Sequential Filling ) to smooth out incomplete sampling
3: Fat Suppression ( if high contrast border is due to fat )

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Gibbs Artifact:

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When Fourier transform samples phase and frequency separate from another

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Gibbs Artifact: Appearance:

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Dark circumference surrounding anatomy followed by brighter circumference surrounding the dark circumference

Imagine a dark circle surrounded by a white circle on the edge of an image

Differs from Truncation by that is does NOT have a wave light appearance and is present along the entire circumference of an image

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Gibbs Artifact: Compensation

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Does not warrant the need to fix and repeat

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Chemical Shift artifact:

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Lack of resonant frequency in hydrogen atoms in fat compared to hydrogen atoms in water

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Chemical Shift artifact: Appearance

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Shifting of fat based tissue over water based tissue in the FREQUENCY direction

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Chemical Shift artifact: Compensation

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Increase bandwidth (indirect relationship with chemical shift)

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16
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Magnet shift = Magnet strength (T) x Hertz/T

149 Hertz/T in 1.0 Tesla Magnet = Increase Chemical Shift
224 Hertz/T in 1/5 Tesla Magnet = Decrease Chemical Shift

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Magnetic Susceptibility:

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Extreme localized dephasing due to different areas being magnetized

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Magnetic Susceptibility: Appearance

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1: extreme signal loss
2: Geometric distortion

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Magnetic Susceptibility: Compensation

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1: Remove metallic object (hairpins, bra, glasses, etc. )
2: Metal protocol (increase bandwidth + increase FOV + tailored RF)
3: Metal Suppression sequences (MAVRIC - GE; WARP - Seimens)

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RF Zipper Artifact

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Stray RF waves entering the room from mobile or navigation devices

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RF Zipper Artifact: Appearance:

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severe distortion with signal disorientation (zipper lines) in the phase direction

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RF Zipper Artifact: Compensation

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1: closing the scanner door completely
2: removing any mobile devises from vicinity of control room

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Motion Artifact: Flow/movement:

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movement of the image being sampled by either patient motion or blood flow

24
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Motion Artifact: Flow/movement: Appearance:

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Flow - pulsation artifact along the phase direction
motion - blurry anatomy in the phase direction

25
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Motion Artifact: Flow: Compensation:

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Saturation band inferior or superior to area of interest
select “flow compensation option”

26
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Motion Artifact: Movement: Compensation

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Sponges to keep patient still
motion correction imaging techniques such as Propeller/BLADE

27
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Partial Volume Averaging:

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With thick slices, more area gets sampled and also gets averaged which drops signal contrast in certain pieces of anatomy

28
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Partial Volume Averaging: Appearance

A

decrease signal contrast on thicker slices

29
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Partial Volume Averaging: Compensation

A

Use thinner slices

30
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Crosstalk Artifact:

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Multiple overlapping slices or acquisitions

31
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Crosstalk Artifact: Appearance

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loss of signal in area of overlapping slices or acquisitions

32
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Crosstalk Artifact: Compensation:

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Separate acquisitions
increasing spaces of slices

33
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Moire Pattern:

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too large of a FOV while using a gradient pulse sequence and magnet body coil

34
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Moire Pattern: Apprearance

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Severe banding or wave-line pattern at the periphery of image

35
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Moire Pattern: Compensation

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Use a different pulse sequence for a localizer rather than a gradient

use a dedicated coil rather than the body coil

36
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Annefact:

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direction of signals being generated outside of desired FOV

Commonly found when scanning thoracic spine and your coil elements are tuned on outside the FOV

37
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Annefact: Appearance

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bright, ghosting signals smeared across the phase direction of an image

38
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Annefact: Compensation

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Proper selection of the receiver coil

verify the phase/frequency directions

39
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IDEAL Artifact *NOT ON REGISTRY *

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too large of a FOV with too high of an acceleration rate

40
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IDEAL Artifact: Apprearance

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moire pattern on the periphery with a mid-sagittal pixelations

41
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IDEAL Artifact: Compensation

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Decrease FOV and decrease ACCL rate

use another sequence such as inversion recovery

42
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Imperfect Fat Saturation:

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range of frequencies exceed the FOV selected for fat saturation or anatomy in direct contact with coil

43
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Imperfect Fat Saturation: Appearance

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immediate fat saturation drop at the periphery of the FOV

44
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Imperfect Fat Saturation: Compenstion

A

use traditional IR Recovery (STIR)

45
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Corduroy Artifact

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K space corruption in a particular data point which causes an error during fourier transformation

46
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Corduroy Artifact: Appearance

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Narrow angular lines throughout the entire sequence resulting in a corduroy appearance

47
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Corduroy Artifact: Compensation

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choose another sequence from protocol management; this sequence may be corruption

48
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Dielectric Effect:

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when a patient’s body diameter measures wider than the RF pulse wavelength be distributed

49
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Dielectric Effect: Appearance:

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Results in a drastic decrease in signal resulting in a dark shadowing in the center of the image

Can also happen in people very skinny, Low fat high water

Normally found in 3T Body MR

50
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Dielectric Effect is normally found on__________________

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3T Body MR

51
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Dielectric Effect: Compensation

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Move to a lower field magnet (most effective)

Use of dielectric pads

Drainage of ascites or other body fluids

52
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Wrap occurs in the ________ direction.

A

Phase

53
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Wrap folds the image back into the ____________ direction.

A

Phase direction

54
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A 8mm slice will have _________ partial volume averaging artifact than a slice with a 4mm slice thickness.

A

more

NOT HALF

55
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By turning “No Phase Wrap” and increasing FOV to cover anatomy, your scan time will be _________.

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shorter

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