Journal: Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery
Article Title: Qualitative and quantitative reproducibility of 3D MERGE and SNAP sequences for carotid vessel wall imaging across Siemens and Philips 3T scanners
doi: 10.21037/qims-24-2124
Figure Lengend Snippet: Phantom experiment to compare Siemens and Philips image quality. Two ACR phantoms (one in the Siemens site and the other in the Philips site) were used. Same coils and protocols as the human experiments were used here. Both 3D MERGE and SNAP have visually reasonable image qualities on both Philips and Siemens scanners, although they exhibit different uniformity patterns. SNR is measured in homogeneous ROIs on both left and right side for each image, defined by dividing the ROI-averaged signal intensity by the standard deviation. Results show that SNR (averaging left and right) is similar in both sequences (Philips vs. Siemens): 21.4 vs. 21.8 in 3D MERGE; 22.75 vs. 20.6 in SNAP. 3D, 3 dimensional; ACR, American College of Radiology; MERGE, motion-sensitized driven equilibrium prepared rapid gradient echo; ROI, region of interest; SNAP, simultaneous non-contrast angiography and plaque; SNR, signal to noise ratio.
Article Snippet: In addition to human data acquisition, we conducted a phantom experiment to compare the capability of the setups in Siemens and Philips scanners, using ACR phantom and same coils and protocols as the human experiments.
Techniques: Standard Deviation