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Steven Ford

Thu. 17 Mar.11,
03:16

[Reply (2 of 5) to:
'Building 3d Volumes from MRI DICOM'
started by: 'Robert Patten'
on Thu. 3 Mar.11]


 
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Building 3d Volumes from MRI DICOM
In almost all cases, MRI images have a slice thickness far greater than their in-plane resolution, making multiplanar reconstruction meaningless. Also, most MRI images have a gap between the slices, which also renders multiplanar meaningless and impossible (unless you're happy with black bars where the slice gaps exist).

You can look at your images and the slice thickness is on the graphics. the slice gap is usually not displayed, but if you look at the slice location displayed on adjacent slices, and compare to the slice thickness, you can easily compute the slice gap.

The in-place resolution is (approx) the field of view divided by the acquisition matrix, both of which are also printed on the image somewhere.

By the way, if you have the dicom (.dcm) files, there is lots of data that's 'hidden' that you can access with a full featured dicom file editor.
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Steven Ford

Mon. 7 Mar.11,
16:07

[Reply (6 of 8) to:
'6-1.5T MAGNETS, DIFFERING GRADIENTS'
started by: 'Elise Gough'
on Wed. 23 Feb.11]


 
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6-1.5T MAGNETS, DIFFERING GRADIENTS
We maintain a lot of magnets. The leading cause of image quality problems is applications related. Nobody can possibly know all the nuances of pulse sequences by various vendors, software levels, etc. I've heard many times that a certain machine is no good, when in fact the sequences are inefficiently set up. Look there first.

Usually the techs welcome good training. If they don't want to be trained, then you have a problem, but it sounds like this issue is caused by other factors.

If there are differences in baseline quality between the machines, then compensate for that by other means. Signal starvation is easily remedied; keep the quality as consistent as you can and let time be the variable, if it comes down to that.




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Elise Gough

Mon. 7 Mar.11,
15:56

[Reply (5 of 8) to:
'6-1.5T MAGNETS, DIFFERING GRADIENTS'
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on Wed. 23 Feb.11]


 
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6-1.5T MAGNETS, DIFFERING GRADIENTS
Thanks so much for the input. NOBODY in my group seems to have a handle on why images vary in quality from 8 different magnets. I'm being pressed to take position of imaging specialist and thru my own research we have gradient strengths from 50 slew rate up to 120. Radiologists complain neuro stinks on the 50 slew rate 1.5T magnet and it is the most pounded on magnet in our group doing hospital inpatients. So many variables including tech expertise.
 
 

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Elise Gough

Fri. 4 Mar.11,
13:56

[Reply (2 of 8) to:
'6-1.5T MAGNETS, DIFFERING GRADIENTS'
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on Wed. 23 Feb.11]


 
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6-1.5T MAGNETS, DIFFERING GRADIENTS
Thank you for your response. Our group is strict about FOV, thickness/gap parameters being the same across all magnets. One magnet has slew rate of 77, FRFSE T2, TE 85,TR 3500 Classic Fat supressed images which are pristine, vs magnets of 120 slew rate same parameters look signal starved. So gradient strength makes a speed difference, not an image quality difference?
 
 

Elise Gough RT(R)(CT)(MR)
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Robert Patten

Thu. 3 Mar.11,
22:08

[Start of:
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Building 3d Volumes from MRI DICOM
I have a number of MRI and CTs since a bad accident. I am a Mechanical Engineer with an electrical, power and computer background.

I was able to render the CT to 3D using Onis (not sure if you've seen this program), but have been unable to manage it with any of the MRIs.

The MRIs were taken on a Phillips Intera 1.5T

I can render a volume but only (1) of the (3) 2D images are clear before it is rendered and the resulting 3D image is just noise. I've tried various software packages and spent a lot of time with the software. Perhaps I don't have the required image files.

Maybe someone knows the answer.

Thanks,

Bob
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