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    Metabolite Mapping with Extended Brain Coverage Using a Fast Multisection MRSI Pulse Sequence and a Multichannel Coil

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    Multisection magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging is a widely used pulse sequence that has distinct advantages over other spectroscopic imaging sequences, such as dynamic shimming, large region-of-interest coverage within slices, and rapid data acquisition. It has limitations, however, in the number of slices that can be acquired in realistic scan times and information loss from spacing between slices. In this paper, we synergize the multi-section spectroscopic imaging pulse sequence with multichannel coil technology to overcome these limitations. These combined techniques now permit elimination of the gaps between slices and acquisition of a larger number of slices to realize the whole brain metabolite mapping without incurring the penalties of longer repetition times (and therefore longer acquisition times) or lower signal-to-noise ratios

    Development and application of magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging analysis software using a voxel-based method

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    ํ•™์œ„๋…ผ๋ฌธ (๋ฐ•์‚ฌ)-- ์„œ์šธ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต ๋Œ€ํ•™์› ์ž์—ฐ๊ณผํ•™๋Œ€ํ•™ ํ˜‘๋™๊ณผ์ • ๋‡Œ๊ณผํ•™์ „๊ณต, 2017. 8. ์ตœ์„์šฐ.์„œ๋ก : ์ž๊ธฐ๊ณต๋ช…๋ถ„๊ด‘๋ฒ•(magnetic resonance spectroscopy, MRS)์€ ์ฒด๋‚ด ๋Œ€์‚ฌ๋ฌผ์งˆ ๋†๋„๋ฅผ ๋น„์นจ์Šต์ ์œผ๋กœ ์•Œ์•„๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ, ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์งˆํ™˜์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ง„๋‹จ ๋ฐ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋œ๋‹ค. ์ž๊ธฐ๊ณต๋ช…๋ถ„๊ด‘์˜์ƒ๋ฒ•(magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging, MRSI)์€ MRS๋ฅผ ๋™์‹œ์— ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋ณต์…€(voxel)๋“ค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํš๋“ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์ด๋‹ค. MRS์™€ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ MRSI๋Š” ๋งŽ์€ ์ˆ˜์˜ ๋ณต์…€๋“ค๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋Œ€์‚ฌ๋ฌผ์งˆ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ์–ป์œผ๋ฏ€๋กœ ๊ธฐ์กด MRS ๋ถ„์„๋ฒ•๊ณผ๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์ ‘๊ทผ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ธฐ์กด์˜ ๋ถ„์„๋ฒ•์ด๋‚˜ ๊ณต๊ฐœ๋œ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ๋“ค๋กœ๋Š” MRSI ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์˜ ๋ถ„์„์— ํ•œ๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด, ์ด๋ฅผ ๊ทน๋ณตํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ MRSI ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ T1 ๊ฐ•์กฐ์˜์ƒํ™”์—ฌ ๋ถ„์„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค. MRSI ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๋ถ„์„ ๋„๊ตฌ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ: MRSI ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ T1 ๊ฐ•์กฐ์˜์ƒํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•œ MRSI ๋ถ„์„์šฉ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) ํŒŒ์ผ(file)๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์Šค์บ” ํŒŒ๋ผ๋ฏธํ„ฐ(scan parameter)๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๊ณ , ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํ–‰๋ ฌ ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜์„ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ T1 ๊ฐ•์กฐ์˜์ƒํ™”๋œ MRSI ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ƒ์„ฑํ•˜๋„๋ก ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, MRS ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ์˜ ์ž๋™ ๊ณ„๋Ÿ‰ํ™”์— ๋„๋ฆฌ ์“ฐ์ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์†Œํ”„ํŠธ์›จ์–ด์ธ LCModel๋กœ ๋ถ„์„ํ•œ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด LCModel ๋ถ„์„ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ํŒŒ์ผ์„ ์ฝ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€๊ณตํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ๊ณผ, T1 ๊ฐ•์กฐ์˜์ƒํ™”๋œ MRSI ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•œ partial-volume correction ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ, ๊ด€์‹ฌ์˜์—ญ(region of interest)์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•˜๋Š” MRSI ๋ณต์…€๋“ค์„ ์ฐพ๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ, ๋Œ€์‚ฌ๋ฌผ์งˆ๋ณ„ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ quality control ๋ฐ ํ‰๊ท  ๋†๋„ ๊ณ„์‚ฐ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ, ๋‡Œ์˜์ƒ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋ฅผ ์‹œ๊ฐํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ ๋“ฑ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ ๊ฒ€์ฆ: ๋ณธ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ์ด์šฉํ•œ MRSI ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๋ถ„์„์„ ์œ„ํ•ด, ๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์„ฑ์ธ 30๋ช…์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ T1 ๊ฐ•์กฐ์˜์ƒ๊ณผ MRSI ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ํš๋“ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. T1 ๊ฐ•์กฐ์˜์ƒ์€ dcm2nii ๋ฐ FSL ๋„๊ตฌ๋“ค์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ „์ฒ˜๋ฆฌํ•˜์˜€๊ณ , MRSI ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋Š” LCModel ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ถ„์„ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ๋ณธ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์˜์—ญ์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•˜๋Š” MRSI ๋ณต์…€๋“ค ์ฐพ๊ธฐ, ๋‡Œ ์ „์ฒด์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ‰๊ท  ๋Œ€์‚ฌ๋ฌผ์งˆ ๋†๋„ ํš๋“, ๋ณต์…€ ๋‹จ์œ„์˜ ํ†ต๊ณ„๋ถ„์„์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์˜์ƒ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ณธ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ฒ€์ฆ์„ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ: ๊ด€์‹ฌ์˜์—ญ์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•˜๋Š” ๋งˆ์Šคํฌ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€(mask image)๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ MRSI ๋ณต์…€๋“ค์ด ์ž˜ ์ฐพ์•„์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ์ •์ƒ๊ตฐ 30๋ช…์œผ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ํš๋“ํ•œ ๋‡Œ ์ „์ฒด์˜ ํ‰๊ท  ๋Œ€์‚ฌ๋ฌผ์งˆ ๋†๋„๋Š” ํฌ๋ ˆ์•„ํ‹ด (creatine) ๋ฐ ํฌ์Šคํฌํฌ๋ ˆ์•„ํ‹ด (phosphocreatine) 9.72 mM, ๊ธ€๋ฆฌ์„ธ๋กœํฌ์Šคํฌ์ฝœ๋ฆฐ (glycerophosphocholine) ๋ฐ ํฌ์Šคํฌ์ฝœ๋ฆฐ (phosphocholine) 3.09 mM, ๊ธ€๋ฃจํƒ€๋ฏผ์‚ฐ์—ผ (glutamate) ๋ฐ ๊ธ€๋ฃจํƒ€๋ฏผ (glutamine) 16.61 mM, ๋ฏธ์˜ค์ด๋…ธ์‹œํ†จ (myo-inositol) 5.53 mM, N-์•„์„ธํ‹ธ์•„์ŠคํŒ”ํ…Œ์ดํŠธ (N-acetylaspartate) 16.22 mM ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. T1 ๊ฐ•์กฐ์˜์ƒํ™”๋œ MRSI ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ํ‘œ์ค€ MNI ํ…œํ”Œ๋ฆฟ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€(standard MNI template image)์— ๋น„์„ ํ˜• ์ •ํ•ฉ(non-linearly registration)ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ณต์…€ ๋‹จ์œ„ ํ†ต๊ณ„๋ถ„์„์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์˜์ƒ์ฒ˜๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด MRSI ์Šฌ๋žฉ ๋ฐ N-์•„์„ธํ‹ธ์•„์ŠคํŒ”ํ…Œ์ดํŠธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ™•๋ฅ  ์ง€๋„(probability map)๋ฅผ ์–ป์„ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ๋ก : ๋ณธ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์€ MRSI ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ T1 ๊ฐ•์กฐ์˜์ƒํ™”ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ด๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ์‹์œผ๋กœ ์‘์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ, ๊ธฐ์กด ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ• ๋ฐ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์–ด๋ ค์› ๋˜ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ MRSI ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๋ถ„์„์„ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ•˜๋Š” ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์ด๋‹ค. ์ž๋™ํ™” ๋ฐ ์‹œ๊ฐํ™”๋ฅผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž์˜ ํŽธ์˜์„ฑ์„ ์ตœ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋†’์˜€๋‹ค. ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์˜ ๋ช‡ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์„ ์‹ค์ œ ๋ถ„์„์— ์‘์šฉํ•ด ๋ณธ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ๊ตฌํ˜„ํ•  ๋•Œ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ํš๋“ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ์กด์—๋Š” ๋ถ„์„์ด ๊นŒ๋‹ค๋กœ์› ๋˜ MRSI ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ์‰ฝ๊ณ  ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ๋ถ„์„ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์˜์˜๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค.์„œ๋ก  1 MRSI ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ๋ถ„์„ ๋„๊ตฌ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ 13 ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ ๊ฒ€์ฆ 38 ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ 49 ๊ณ ์ฐฐ 55 ์ฐธ๊ณ ๋ฌธํ—Œ 74 ์˜๋ฌธ ์ดˆ๋ก 86Docto
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