提出BRITE方法,让磁共振组织标记成像在亮度变化下仍能精准追踪组织运动。
Brightness-Invariant Tracking Estimation in Tagged MRI
- 分离解剖结构与标记图案,联合估计拉格朗日运动
- 相比现有方法,运动与应变估计误差降低18%-23%
- 适合研究心脏或软组织动态的医学影像工作者
磁共振标记技术通过创建随组织变形的磁化饱和标记图案,实现活体组织运动的无创追踪。由于纵向弛豫和稳态演化,标记与组织亮度随时间变化,使光学流方法易出错。尽管傅里叶方法可缓解部分问题,但仍对亮度变化及运动引起的谱展宽敏感。为此,本文提出亮度不变追踪估计(BRITE)技术,将观测序列中的解剖结构与标记图案解耦,并同步估计拉格朗日运动。通过利用去噪扩散概率模型表征解剖结构的先验分布,以及物理信息神经网络实现生物合理运动估计,解决该问题的固有不适定性。使用不同标记周期与成像翻转角的凝胶假体标本数据验证方法有效性。结果表明,相较于现有最优方法,BRITE在运动与应变估计上误差降低18%-23%,且对标记衰减具有强鲁棒性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Magnetic resonance (MR) tagging is an imaging technique for noninvasively tracking tissue motion in vivo by creating a visible pattern of magnetization saturation (tags) that deforms with the tissue. Due to longitudinal relaxation and progression to steady-state, the tags and tissue brightnesses change over time, which makes tracking with optical flow methods error-prone. Although Fourier methods can alleviate these problems, they are also sensitive to brightness changes as well as spectral spreading due to motion. To address these problems, we introduce the brightness-invariant tracking estimation (BRITE) technique for tagged MRI. BRITE disentangles the anatomy from the tag pattern in the observed tagged image sequence and simultaneously estimates the Lagrangian motion. The inherent ill-posedness of this problem is addressed by leveraging the expressive power of denoising diffusion probabilistic models to represent the probabilistic distribution of the underlying anatomy and the flexibility of physics-informed neural networks to estimate biologically-plausible motion. A set of tagged MR images of a gel phantom was acquired with various tag periods and imaging flip angles to demonstrate the impact of brightness variations and to validate our method. The results show that BRITE achieves more accurate motion and strain estimates as compared to other state of the art methods, while also being resistant to tag fading.
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