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ArticleJournal of therapeutic ultrasound2017

Spatially-segmented undersampled MRI temperature reconstruction for transcranial MR-guided focused ultrasound.

Pooja Gaur, Beat Werner, Xue Feng, Samuel W Fielden, Craig H Meyer, William A Grissom

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Article in Journal of therapeutic ultrasound, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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6 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Pooja GaurDepartment of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, USA.
Beat WernerCenter for MR-Research, University Children's Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland.
Xue FengDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA.
Samuel W FieldenAutism and Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger Health System, Danville, USA.
Craig H MeyerDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA.
William A GrissomInstitute of Imaging Science, Vanderbilt University, 1161 21st Ave S, Nashville, 37232 USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3289-1827
University of Virginia · USAutism & Developmental Medicine Institute · USStanford University · USUniversity Children's Hospital Zurich · CHVanderbilt University · US

Funding

STANFORD CANCER IMAGING TRAINING (SCIT) PROGRAMT32CA009695 · NCI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI BRUCE L DANIEL, Jeremy Dahl · 1993 to 2026
$7.7M
Institutional Predoctoral Training Program in Biomedical Imaging ScienceT32EB014841 · NIBIB · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI GORE, JOHN C · 2013 to 2017
$771k
NCI NIH HHS T32 CA009695NIBIB NIH HHS T32 EB014841
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundVolumetric thermometry with fine spatiotemporal resolution is desirable to monitor MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) procedures in the brain, but requires some form of accelerated imaging. Accelerated MR temperature imaging methods have been developed that undersample k-space and leverage signal correlations over time to suppress the resulting undersampling artifacts. However, in transcranial MRgFUS treatments, the water bath surrounding the skull creates signal variations that do not follow those correlations, leading to temperature errors in the brain due to signal aliasing.

methodsTo eliminate temperature errors due to the water bath, a spatially-segmented iterative reconstruction method was developed. The method fits a k-space hybrid signal model to reconstruct temperature changes in the brain, and a conventional MR signal model in the water bath. It was evaluated using single-channel 2DFT Cartesian, golden angle radial, and spiral data from gel phantom heating, and in vivo 8-channel 2DFT data from a FUS thalamotomy. Water bath signal intensity in phantom heating images was scaled between 0-100% to investigate its effect on temperature error. Temperature reconstructions of retrospectively undersampled data were performed using the spatially-segmented method, and compared to conventional whole-image k-space hybrid (phantom) and SENSE (in vivo) reconstructions.

resultsAt 100% water bath signal intensity, 3 ×-undersampled spatially-segmented temperature reconstruction error was nearly 5-fold lower than the whole-image k-space hybrid method. Temperature root-mean square error in the hot spot was reduced on average by 27 × (2DFT), 5 × (radial), and 12 × (spiral) using the proposed method. It reduced in vivo error 2 × in the brain for all acceleration factors, and between 2 × and 3 × in the temperature hot spot for 2-4 × undersampling compared to SENSE.

conclusionsSeparate reconstruction of brain and water bath signals enables accelerated MR temperature imaging during MRgFUS procedures with low errors due to undersampling using Cartesian and non-Cartesian trajectories. The spatially-segmented method benefits from multiple coils, and reconstructs temperature with lower error compared to measurements from SENSE-reconstructed images. The acceleration can be applied to increase volumetric coverage and spatiotemporal resolution.

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Image reconstructionMRI-guided focused ultrasoundProton resonance frequency-shiftTemperature imagingThermometry

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