Chinese Medical Sciences Journal ›› 2020, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (3): 248-253.doi: 10.24920/003713

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Effect of MR Field Strength on the Texture Features of Cerebral T2-FLAIR Images: A Pilot Study

Wang Xuedan, Wang Shiwei, Wang Botao, Chen Zhiye()   

  1. Department of Radiology, Hainan Hospital of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Sanya, Hainan 572013, China
  • Received:2020-02-20 Published:2020-09-30 Online:2020-09-25
  • Contact: Chen Zhiye E-mail:yyqf@hotmail.com

Objective To investigate effect of MR field strength on texture features of cerebral T2 fluid attenuated inversion recovery (T2-FLAIR) images.
Methods We acquired cerebral 3D T2-FLAIR images of thirty patients who were diagnosed with ischemic white matter lesion (WML) with MR-1.5T and MR-3.0T scanners. Histogram texture features which included mean signal intensity (Mean), Skewness and Kurtosis, and gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) texture features which included angular second moment (ASM), Contrast, Correlation, Inverse difference moment (IDM) and Entropy, of regions of interest located in the area of WML and normal white matter (NWM) were measured by ImageJ software. The texture parameters acquired with MR-1.5T scanning were compared with MR-3.0T scanning.
Results The Mean of both WML and NWM obtained with MR-1.5T scanning was significantly lower than that acquired with MR-3.0T (P<0.001), while Skewness and Kurtosis between MR-1.5T and MR-3.0T scanning showed no significant difference (P>0.05). ASM, Correlation and IDM of both WML and NWM acquired with MR-1.5T revealed significantly lower values than those with MR-3.0T (P<0.001), while Contrast and Entropy acquired with MR-1.5T showed significantly higher values than those with MR-3.0T (P<0.001).
Conclusion MR field strength showed no significant effect on histogram textures, while had significant effect on GLCM texture features of cerebral T2-FLAIR images, which indicated that it should be cautious to explain the texture results acquired based on the different MR field strength.

Key words: magnetic resonance imaging, field strength, fluid attenuated inversion recovery, white matter, texture features

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