arXiv:2409.16200eess.IVcs.CV2024-09被引 1

解决上身磁共振指纹成像运动伪影,实现精准脂肪与水T1定量。

Upper-body free-breathing Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting applied to the quantification of water T1 and fat fraction

  • 用优化预扫描估计运动场,实时校正采集数据以减少运动干扰。
  • 在呼吸肌等易动区域,显著降低模糊和条纹伪影,提升图像清晰度。
  • 适用于呼吸肌等难测部位的3D定量分析,对肌肉疾病研究有重要意义。

过去十年,磁共振指纹成像(MRF)已成为快速同步量化多种MRI参数(如脂肪分数(FF)、水T1(T1_H2O)、水T2(T2_H2O)、脂肪T1(T1_fat))的高效范式,这些参数在心脏、肝脏和骨骼肌等部位具有潜在生物标志物价值。然而,上身区域因生理运动(尤其是呼吸运动)影响,测量面临挑战。本文提出一种新型运动校正(MoCo)MRF T1-FF方法,通过优化预扫描估计运动场,并用于校正MRF采集数据,再进行字典搜索重建运动校正后的脂肪分数与水T1参数图。在十名健康志愿者及一名10岁杜氏肌营养不良患儿的活体数据集上验证,对于运动影响较小区域,未校正与校正结果间无显著偏差(脂肪分数均值差-0.7%,水T1均值差-4.9 ms),且标准差显著下降,精度提升。在呼吸肌、肝脏、肾脏等高运动区域,运动校正后明显减少运动模糊与条纹伪影,膈肌在参数图中可稳定识别。该方法为呼吸肌(如肋间肌、膈肌)等少见研究区域的联合3D脂肪分数与水T1定量提供了基础。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Over the past decade, Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) has emerged as an efficient paradigm for the rapid and simultaneous quantification of multiple MRI parameters, including fat fraction (FF), water T1 ($T1_{H2O}$), water T2 ($T2_{H2O}$), and fat T1 ($T1_{fat}$). These parameters serve as promising imaging biomarkers in various anatomical targets such as the heart, liver, and skeletal muscles. However, measuring these parameters in the upper body poses challenges due to physiological motion, particularly respiratory motion. In this work, we propose a novel approach, motion-corrected (MoCo) MRF T1-FF, which estimates the motion field using an optimized preliminary motion scan and uses it to correct the MRF acquisition data before dictionary search for reconstructing motion-corrected FF and $T1_{H2O}$ parametric maps of the upper-body region. We validated this framework using an $\textit{in vivo}$ dataset comprising ten healthy volunteers and a 10-year-old boy with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. At the ROI level, in regions minimally affected by motion, no significant bias was observed between the uncorrected and MoCo reconstructions for FF (mean difference of -0.7%) and $T1_{H2O}$ (-4.9 ms) values. Moreover, MoCo MRF T1-FF significantly reduced the standard deviations of distributions assessed in these regions, indicating improved precision. Notably, in regions heavily affected by motion, such as respiratory muscles, liver, and kidneys, the MRF parametric maps exhibited a marked reduction in motion blurring and streaking artifacts after motion correction. Furthermore, the diaphragm was consistently discernible on parametric maps after motion correction. This approach lays the groundwork for the joint 3D quantification of FF and $T1_{H2O}$ in regions that are rarely studied, such as the respiratory muscles, particularly the intercostal muscles and diaphragm.

磁共振定量成像运动校正脂肪分数

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