Accelerated acquisition of tagged MRI for cardiac motion correction in simultaneous PET‐MR: Phantom and patient studies
- 30 January 2015
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Medical Physics
- Vol. 42 (2), 1087-1097
- https://doi.org/10.1118/1.4906247
Abstract
Degradation of image quality caused by cardiac and respiratory motions hampers the diagnostic quality of cardiac PET. It has been shown that improved diagnostic accuracy of myocardial defect can be achieved by tagged MR (tMR) based PET motion correction using simultaneous PET-MR. However, one major hurdle for the adoption of tMR-based PET motion correction in the PET-MR routine is the long acquisition time needed for the collection of fully sampled tMR data. In this work, the authors propose an accelerated tMR acquisition strategy using parallel imaging and/or compressed sensing and assess the impact on the tMR-based motion corrected PET using phantom and patient data. Fully sampled tMR data were acquired simultaneously with PET list-mode data on two simultaneous PET-MR scanners for a cardiac phantom and a patient. Parallel imaging and compressed sensing were retrospectively performed by GRAPPA and kt-FOCUSS algorithms with various acceleration factors. Motion fields were estimated using nonrigid B-spline image registration from both the accelerated and fully sampled tMR images. The motion fields were incorporated into a motion corrected ordered subset expectation maximization reconstruction algorithm with motion-dependent attenuation correction. Although tMR acceleration introduced image artifacts into the tMR images for both phantom and patient data, motion corrected PET images yielded similar image quality as those obtained using the fully sampled tMR images for low to moderate acceleration factors (<4). Quantitative analysis of myocardial defect contrast over ten independent noise realizations showed similar results. It was further observed that although the image quality of the motion corrected PET images deteriorates for high acceleration factors, the images were still superior to the images reconstructed without motion correction. Accelerated tMR images obtained with more than 4 times acceleration can still provide relatively accurate motion fields and yield tMR-based motion corrected PET images with similar image quality as those reconstructed using fully sampled tMR data. The reduction of tMR acquisition time makes it more compatible with routine clinical cardiac PET-MR studies.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHBLI) (R01HL110241, R01HL118261)
- National Cancer Institute (NCI) (R01CA165221)
- National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) (R21EB012326)
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL110241, R01HL118261)
- National Cancer Institute (R01CA165221)
- National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (R21EB012326)
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL110241, R01HL118261)
- National Cancer Institute (R01CA165221)
- National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (R21EB012326)
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