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A precise and fast temperature mapping using water proton chemical shift
Yasutoshi Ishihara,
Arturo Calderon, Hidehiro Watanabe, Kazuya Okamoto, Yoshinori Suzuki, Kagayaki Kuroda,
Yutaka Suzuki,
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Yasutoshi Ishihara
Toshiba R & D Center, Kawasaki, 210 Japan
Yasutoshi Ishihara, Toshiba R & D Center, 1, Komukai Toshiba-cho, Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki, 210 Japan===Search for more papers by this authorKagayaki Kuroda
Faculty of Engineering, Osaka City University, Osaka, 558 Japan
Search for more papers by this authorYutaka Suzuki
Faculty of Engineering, Osaka City University, Osaka, 558 Japan
Search for more papers by this authorYasutoshi Ishihara,
Arturo Calderon, Hidehiro Watanabe, Kazuya Okamoto, Yoshinori Suzuki, Kagayaki Kuroda,
Yutaka Suzuki,
Corresponding Author
Yasutoshi Ishihara
Toshiba R & D Center, Kawasaki, 210 Japan
Yasutoshi Ishihara, Toshiba R & D Center, 1, Komukai Toshiba-cho, Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki, 210 Japan===Search for more papers by this authorKagayaki Kuroda
Faculty of Engineering, Osaka City University, Osaka, 558 Japan
Search for more papers by this authorYutaka Suzuki
Faculty of Engineering, Osaka City University, Osaka, 558 Japan
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A new temperature measurement procedure using phase mapping was developed that makes use of the temperature dependence of the water proton chemical shift. Highly accurate and fast measurements were obtained during phantom and in vivo experiments. In the pure water phantom experiments, an accuracy of more than ± 0.5°C was obtained within a few seconds/slice using a field echo pulse sequence (TR/TE = 115/13 ms, matrix = 128 × 128, number of slices = 5). The temperature dependence of the water proton chemical shift was found to be almost the same for different materials with a chemical composition similar to living tissues (water, glucide, protein). Using this method, the temperature change inside a cat's brain was obtained with an accuracy of more than ± 1°C and an in-plane resolution of 0.6 x 0.6 mm. The temperature measurement error was affected by several factors in the living system (B0 shifts caused by position shifts of the sample, blood flow, etc.), the position shift effect being the most serious.
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