Usman, M;
Ruijsink, B;
Nazir, MS;
Cruz, G;
Prieto, C;
(2017)
Free breathing whole-heart 3D CINE MRI with self-gated Cartesian trajectory.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
, 38
pp. 129-137.
10.1016/j.mri.2016.12.021.
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Abstract
PURPOSE: To present a method that uses a novel free-running self-gated acquisition to achieve isotropic resolution in whole heart 3D Cartesian cardiac CINE MRI. MATERIAL AND METHODS: 3D cardiac CINE MRI using navigator gating results in long acquisition times. Recently, several frameworks based on self-gated non-Cartesian trajectories have been proposed to accelerate this acquisition. However, non-Cartesian reconstructions are computationally expensive due to gridding, particularly in 3D. In this work, we propose a novel highly efficient self-gated Cartesian approach for 3D cardiac CINE MRI. Acquisition is performed using CArtesian trajectory with Spiral PRofile ordering and Tiny golden angle step for eddy current reduction (so called here CASPR-Tiger). Data is acquired continuously under free breathing (retrospective ECG gating, no preparation pulses interruption) for 4–5 min and 4D whole-heart volumes (3D + cardiac phases) with isotropic spatial resolution are reconstructed from all available data using a soft gating technique combined with temporal total variation (TV) constrained iterative SENSE reconstruction. RESULTS: For data acquired on eight healthy subjects and three patients, the reconstructed images using the proposed method had good contrast and spatio-temporal variations, correctly recovering diastolic and systolic cardiac phases. Non-significant differences (P > 0.05) were observed in cardiac functional measurements obtained with proposed 3D approach and gold standard 2D multi-slice breath-hold acquisition. CONCLUSION: The proposed approach enables isotropic 3D whole heart Cartesian cardiac CINE MRI in 4 to 5 min free breathing acquisition.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Free breathing whole-heart 3D CINE MRI with self-gated Cartesian trajectory |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.mri.2016.12.021 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mri.2016.12.021 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging, 3D Cardiac Cine, Free Breathing, Self-Gating, Golden Angle Step, Magnetic-Resonance, Respiratory Motion, Coronary Mra, Golden Ratio, Sparse MRI, Reconstruction, Resolution, Combination, Acquisition, Compression |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1535834 |
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