Kagayaki Kuroda1, 2, Yuta Takano3, Makoto Obara4, Paul Baron5, Lam Mie Kee5, Wilbert L. Bartels5, Honda Masatoshi4, Yutaka Imai6
1School of Information Science and Technology , Tokai University, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, Japan; 2Department of Research and Development, Foundation for Kobe International Medical Alliance, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan; 3School of Information Science and Technology, Tokai University, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, Japan; 4MR Marketing, Philips Electronics Japan Medical Systems, Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan; 5Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands; 6Department of Radiology, Tokai University, Japan
Density ratios among the nine fat proton components were measured for optimizing image processing in fat-water thermometry based on methylene T1 and water proton resonance frequency. The results suggested that the relative ratios among the components were mostly temperature independent suggesting that the component ratios can be fixed in the fat signal estimation in temperature imaging.