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ArticleMagnetic resonance in medicine2025

3D deuterium metabolic imaging (DMI) of the human liver at 7 T using low-rank and subspace model-based reconstruction.

Kyung Min Nam, Ayhan Gursan, Nam G Lee, Dennis W J Klomp, Jannie P Wijnen, Jeanine J Prompers, Arjan D Hendriks, Alex A Bhogal

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Kyung Min NamCenter for Image Sciences, High Field MR Research Group, Department of Radiology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-9185-3986
Ayhan GursanCenter for Image Sciences, High Field MR Research Group, Department of Radiology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Nam G LeeAlfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5462-1492
Dennis W J KlompCenter for Image Sciences, High Field MR Research Group, Department of Radiology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Jannie P WijnenCenter for Image Sciences, High Field MR Research Group, Department of Radiology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Jeanine J PrompersCenter for Image Sciences, High Field MR Research Group, Department of Radiology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-4756-4474
Arjan D HendriksCenter for Image Sciences, High Field MR Research Group, Department of Radiology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-0363-2471
Alex A BhogalCenter for Image Sciences, High Field MR Research Group, Department of Radiology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Funding

European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement 813120MITI (EU EIC Transition) Non-ionizing Metabolic Imaging for predicting the effect of and guiding Therapeutic Interventions 101058229The information Technology for European Advancement program (ITEA4) 20209
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purposeTo implement a low-rank and subspace model-based reconstruction for 3D deuterium metabolic imaging (DMI) and compare its performance against Fourier transform-based (FFT) reconstruction in terms of spectral fitting reliability.

methodsBoth reconstruction methods were applied on simulated and experimental DMI data. Numerical simulations were performed to evaluate the effect of increasing acceleration factors. The impact on spectral fitting results, SNR, and the overall normalized root mean square error (NRMSE) compared to ground-truth data were calculated. A comparative analysis was performed on DMI data acquired from the human liver, including both natural abundance and post-deuterated glucose intake data at 7 T.

resultsSimulation showed the Cramer-Rao lower bound [%] of water, glucose, sum of glutamate and glutamine (Glx), and lipid signals for the low-rank and subspace model-based reconstruction at R = 1.0 was 12.4, 14.7, 17.3, and 11.0 times lower than FFT. At R = 1.1, NRMSE was 1.4%, 1.3%, 0.8%, and 4.2% lower for the water, glucose, Glx, and lipid, respectively, compared to FFT. However, the NRMSE of the Glx and lipid increased by 0.4% and 3.2% at R = 1.3. For the in vivo DMI experiment, SNR was 2.5-3.0 times higher compared to FFT. The fitted amplitude of water and glucose peaks showed Cramer-Rao lower bound [%] values that were approximately 2.3 times lower than FFT.

conclusionSimulations and in vivo experiments on the human liver demonstrate that low-rank and subspace model-based reconstruction with undersampled data mitigates noise and enhances spectral fitting quality.

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DeuteriumImage Processing, Computer-AssistedImaging, Three-DimensionalLiverMagnetic Resonance ImagingAlgorithmsComputer SimulationFourier AnalysisGlucoseHumansMalePhantoms, ImagingReproducibility of ResultsSignal-To-Noise RatioDeuteriumGlucose2H7 Tdeuteriumdeuterium MRSIDMIliverlow rankSPICEsubspace model

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