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Development of a Suitable Actuator for Magnetic Resonance Elastography of the Psoas Major Muscle

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This study aimed to develop a refined actuator suitable for psoas major muscle (PM) MR elastography (MRE) and evaluate its measurement precision. MRE was performed on nine healthy volunteers. Discomfort under PM-MRE examinations was evaluated by discomfort scores using a four-point subjective scale. The performance of refined actuator was evaluated in detail; repeatability was evaluated using repeatability coefficients (%RC) according to the Quantitative Imaging Biomarker Alliance (QIBA) and reproducibility with different operators was evaluated using interclass correlation coefficients (ICC). The discomfort score was 1.4 ± 0.53 and it indicated refined actuator was sufficiently comfortable (no pain). In the repeatability study (n = 9), the %RC was approximately 19%, which was comparable to the limit required for clinical liver MREs by the QIBA (19%). In the reproducibility study, the ICCs were > 0.90 (n = 3), indicating that the refined actuator had almost perfect reproducibility. The refined actuator was suitable for PM-MREs and had acceptable repeatability and reproducibility. Refined actuator was expected to meet the standard set by the QIBA (for liver MRE).

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This work was supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI Grant Number JP19K09579, and Nakatomi Foundation, Japan.

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  1. Department of Radiological Sciences, Graduate School of Human Health Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 7-2-10, Higashiogu, Arakawa-ku, Tokyo, 116-8551, Japan

    Tetsushi Habe, Tomokazu Numano, Daiki Ito, Takamichi Ueki & Keisuke Igarashi

  2. Office of Radiation Technology, Keio University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

    Tetsushi Habe & Daiki Ito

  3. Human Technology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Ibaraki, Japan

    Tomokazu Numano, Daiki Ito & Kazuyuki Mizuhara

  4. Department of Sport and Health Sciences, Faculty of Human Sciences, University of East Asia, Yamaguchi, Japan

    Kouichi Takamoto

  5. System Emotional Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan

    Kouichi Takamoto & Hisao Nishijo

  6. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo Denki University, Tokyo, Japan

    Kazuyuki Mizuhara

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Study conception and design: TH and TN. Acquisition of data: TH, DI, TU, and KI. Analysis and interpretation of data: TH, TN, KT, and HN. Drafting of manuscript: TH. Critical revision: TN and HN.

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Habe, T., Numano, T., Ito, D. et al. Development of a Suitable Actuator for Magnetic Resonance Elastography of the Psoas Major Muscle. Appl Magn Reson 52, 157–168 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00723-020-01294-y

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