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Review
. 2022 Jul;49(7):4861-4874.
doi: 10.1002/mp.15686. Epub 2022 May 23.

Synthetic MR: Physical principles, clinical implementation, and new developments

Ken-Pin Hwang  1 , Shohei Fujita  2   3
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Review

Synthetic MR: Physical principles, clinical implementation, and new developments

Ken-Pin Hwang et al. Med Phys. 2022 Jul.

Abstract

Current clinical MR imaging practices rely on the qualitative assessment of images for diagnosis and treatment planning. While contrast in MR images is dependent on the spin parameters of the imaged tissue, pixel values on MR images are relative and are not scaled to represent any tissue properties. Synthetic MR is a fully featured imaging workflow consisting of efficient multi-parameter mapping acquisition, synthetic image generation, and volume quantitation of brain tissues. As the application becomes more widely available on multiple vendors and scanner platforms, it has also gained widespread adoption as clinicians begin to recognize the benefits of rapid quantitation. This review will provide details about the sequence with a focus on the physical principles behind its relaxometry mechanisms. It will present an overview of the products in their current form and some potential issues when implementing it in the clinic. It will conclude by highlighting some recent advances of the technique, including a 3D mapping method and its associated applications.

Keywords: quantitative imaging; relaxometry; synthetic MR.

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