GRACE
GRACE
Increased Choline-signal within breast tumor, shown with GRACE
GRACE (GeneRAlized breast speCtroscopy Exam) is a Single Voxel Spectroscopy technique optimized for breast spectroscopy.
Clinical Applications
- Additional information in characterization of breast lesions seen in MR leading to better diagnosis
- May aid to improve the specificity for tumor diagnoses
- Follow-up of breast lesions after chemotherapy
Características y Beneficios
Features
- The technique contains a special lipid suppression pulse and a water reference detection (to visualize the choline ratio)
- Spectral suppression pulses for lipid or water
- Lipid signal is suppressed by spectral RF pulse in every average of the measurement.
- Online central frequency correction for reduction of motion related artifacts
- Movement of thorax causes frequency shift, inline implementation of frequenzy correction, no additional user interaction is required
General Requirements
System
- MAGNETOM Verio
- MAGNETOM Skyra eco
- Biograph mMR
- MAGNETOM Espree
- MAGNETOM Spectra
- MAGNETOM Skyra
- MAGNETOM Aera
- MAGNETOM Prisma
- MAGNETOM Trio, A Tim System
- MAGNETOM Prismafit
- MAGNETOM Skyrafit
- MAGNETOM Avantofit
- Single Voxel Spectroscopy
- Spectroscopy Evaluation
- MAGNETOM Amira
- MAGNETOM Sempra
- MAGNETOM Symphony, A Tim System
- MAGNETOM Avanto
- MAGNETOM Solafit
- MAGNETOM Vidafit
Minimum Software Version
syngo MR B15
For 3T systems: syngo MR B17
syngo MR D11
Other
Please Note: Additional technical pre-requisites may apply. Upon receiving your request, your local Siemens representative will clarify whether your system meets the requirements.
Recommendations
Coil
Breast Matrix Coil