Junmin Liu1,
David W. Holdsworth1, 2, Maria Drangova1,
2
1Imaging
Research Laboratories, Robarts Research Institute, Schulich School of
Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario,
Canada; 2Department of Medical Biophysics, Shulich School of
Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario,
Canada
A single-point Dixon fat-water separation method is presented to address the concern of relative long scan times associated with multi-echo acquisition. The method derives field maps using the bias-corrected fuzzy C-means (BCFCM) algorithm from a single-echo data set. In vivo 3D experimental results demonstrate that the proposed technique offers robust fat-water separation from a single data set; the results are compared those generated by the three-point IDEAL technique.