Magnitude‐intrinsic water–fat ambiguity can be resolved with multipeak fat modeling and a multipoint search method

To develop a postprocessing algorithm for multiecho chemical‐shift encoded water–fat separation that estimates proton density fat fraction (PDFF) maps over the full dynamic range (0‐100%) using multipeak fat modeling and multipoint search optimization. To assess its accuracy, reproducibility, and agreement with state‐of‐the‐art complex‐based methods, and to evaluate its robustness to artefacts in abdominal PDFF maps.

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