arXiv:2503.16918eess.IVphysics.med-ph2025-03

提出统一方法设计3D非笛卡尔轨迹,提升快速体积MRI采样效率。

Design of 3D Non-Cartesian Trajectories for Fast Volumetric MRI via Analytic Coordinate Discretization

  • 用解析坐标离散化思想生成三种3D轨迹,保持轨迹连续性。
  • 可精确计算读出数与加速因子,支持变密度采样。
  • 在模拟实验中显著提升采样效率和图像质量,适合高分辨率MRI。

3D非笛卡尔轨迹在快速体积成像中相比笛卡尔轨迹具有更高的采样效率和对运动、流动及伪影的鲁棒性。本文提出一种统一框架,用于设计三种常用非笛卡尔轨迹:3D Radial、3D Cones 和 Stack-of-Spirals。该方法基于将非笛卡尔轨迹视为一组模板轨迹的无限复制所构成的解析坐标离散化。通过在曲面上构建连续螺旋路径,并以单位间隔采样,仅保留必要径向线/分段,从而获得实际轨迹。优势在于可利用雅可比行列式直接推导解析密度补偿因子,量化从解析坐标到笛卡尔网格的面积变化;同时给出读出数的解析公式,可根据预设参数指定总扫描时间下的加速因子。此外,变密度采样易于实现,即使读出数较少,径向线/分段在k空间仍均匀分布。初步体模实验表明,该方法相比传统方案提升了采样效率和图像质量。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

3D non-Cartesian trajectories offer several advantages over rectilinear trajectories for rapid volumetric imaging, including improved sampling efficiency and greater robustness to motion, flow, and aliasing artifacts. In this paper, we present a unified framework for designing three widely used non-Cartesian trajectories: 3D Radial, 3D Cones, and Stack-of-Spirals. Our approach is based on the idea that a non-Cartesian trajectory can be interpreted as a discretized version of an analytic coordinate defined by a set of template trajectories. Equivalently, the analytic coordinate is conceptualized as a non-Cartesian trajectory composed of an infinite number of copies of a set of template trajectories. The discretization is accomplished by constructing a continuous spiral path on a surface and sampling points along this path at unit intervals, leaving only the essential spokes/interleaves, thereby yielding the practical non-Cartesian trajectory from the analytic coordinate. One of the advantages of our approach is that the analytic density compensation factor can be readily derived using Jacobian determinants, which quantify changes in unit areas due to the transformation from the analytic coordinate to the Cartesian grid. Additionally, the proposed approach derives analytic formulae to compute the number of readouts based on prescribed parameters, allowing us to specify the trajectory's acceleration factor for a given total scan time. Furthermore, variable-density sampling can be easily incorporated, and spokes/interleaves are smoothly distributed in k-space along the derived spiral path, even for a small number of readouts. In a preliminary phantom study, the proposed method demonstrated improved sampling efficiency and image quality compared to the conventional approach.

MRI轨迹设计非笛卡尔快速成像

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