Abstract #2625

The Effect of Acquisition Parameter Changes on the Outcome of Texture Analysis using a Clinical Breast MRI Sequence on a Foam Phantom at 1.5T

Shelley Waugh^1,2, Richard Lerski^1,2, L. Bidaut², Alastair Thompson^2,3

¹Medical Physics, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, United Kingdom; ²University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom; ³Department of Surgery, Ninewells Hospital, United Kingdom

The aim of this study was to identify whether four different grades of reticulated foam, which appeared visually identical when imaged on a 1.5T MRI scanner using a gradient echo sequence, could be distinguished using texture analysis. The influence of changing the sequence parameters on the outcome of texture analysis was also assessed.