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Sun A, Lu H, Wu P, Zhao B. Accelerated Black-Blood Cine MR Imaging with Low-Rank and Sparsity Constraints. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2023; 2023:1-4. [PMID: 38083142 DOI: 10.1109/embc40787.2023.10340783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2023]
Abstract
Black-blood MRI is a promising imaging technique for assessing vascular diseases (e.g., stroke). Vessel wall dynamic characterization using black-blood cine MRI has been recognized as an effective tool for studying vascular diseases. However, acquiring time-resolved 3D vessel wall images often requires a long acquisition time, which limits its clinical utility. In this work, we develop a new method to achieve rapid, time-resolved 3D black-blood cine MRI. Specifically, the proposed method performs (k, t)-space undersampling to accelerate the volumetric data acquisition process. Moreover, it utilizes an image reconstruction method with low-rank and sparsity constraints to enable high-quality image reconstruction from highly-undersampled data. We validate the performance of the proposed method with 3D in vivo black-blood cine MRI experiments and show representative results to demonstrate the utility of the proposed method.
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Secchi F, Monti CB, Capra D, Vitale R, Mazzaccaro D, Conti M, Jin N, Giese D, Nano G, Sardanelli F, Marrocco-Trischitta MM. Carotid Phase-Contrast Magnetic Resonance before Treatment: 4D-Flow versus Standard 2D Imaging. Tomography 2021; 7:513-522. [PMID: 34698250 PMCID: PMC8544659 DOI: 10.3390/tomography7040044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2021] [Revised: 09/15/2021] [Accepted: 09/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the level of agreement between flow/velocity data obtained from 2D-phase-contrast (PC) and 4D-flow in patients scheduled for treatment of carotid artery stenosis. Image acquisition was performed using a 1.5 T scanner. We compared mean flow rates, vessel areas, and peak velocities obtained during the acquisition with both techniques in 20 consecutive patients, 15 males and 5 females aged 69 ± 5 years (mean ± standard deviation). There was a good correlation between both techniques for the CCA flow (r = 0.65, p < 0.001), whereas for the ICA flow and ECA flow the correlation was only moderate (r = 0.4, p = 0.011 and r = 0.45, p = 0.003, respectively). Correlations of peak velocities between methods were good for CCA (r = 0.56, p < 0.001) and moderate for ECA (r = 0.41, p = 0.008). There was no correlation for ICA (r = 0.04, p = 0.805). Cross-sectional area values between methods showed no significant correlations for CCA (r = 0.18, p = 0.269), ICA (r = 0.1, p = 0.543), and ECA (r = 0.05, p = 0.767). Conclusion: the 4D-flow imaging provided a good correlation of CCA and a moderate correlation of ICA flow rates against 2D-PC, underestimating peak velocities and overestimating cross-sectional areas in all carotid segments.
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- Francesco Secchi
- Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20100 Milan, Italy; (C.B.M.); (D.C.); (R.V.); (G.N.); (F.S.)
- Unit of Radiology, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, 20097 San Donato Milanese, Italy
- Correspondence:
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20100 Milan, Italy; (C.B.M.); (D.C.); (R.V.); (G.N.); (F.S.)
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20100 Milan, Italy; (C.B.M.); (D.C.); (R.V.); (G.N.); (F.S.)
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20100 Milan, Italy; (C.B.M.); (D.C.); (R.V.); (G.N.); (F.S.)
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- Unit of Vascular Surgery, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, 20097 San Donato Milanese, Italy; (D.M.); (M.M.M.-T.)
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- Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy;
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- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA 19355, USA;
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- Magnetic Resonance, Siemens Healthcare GmbH, 91052 Erlangen, Germany;
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20100 Milan, Italy; (C.B.M.); (D.C.); (R.V.); (G.N.); (F.S.)
- Unit of Vascular Surgery, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, 20097 San Donato Milanese, Italy; (D.M.); (M.M.M.-T.)
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20100 Milan, Italy; (C.B.M.); (D.C.); (R.V.); (G.N.); (F.S.)
- Unit of Radiology, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, 20097 San Donato Milanese, Italy
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- Unit of Vascular Surgery, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, 20097 San Donato Milanese, Italy; (D.M.); (M.M.M.-T.)
- Clinical Research Unit, Cardiovascular Department, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, 20097 San Donato Milanese, Italy
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Kim H, Park S, Kim EY, Park J. Retrospective multi-phase non-contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography (ROMANCE MRA) for robust angiogram separation in the presence of cardiac arrhythmia. Magn Reson Med 2018; 80:976-989. [DOI: 10.1002/mrm.27099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2017] [Revised: 12/27/2017] [Accepted: 12/30/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Hahnsung Kim
- Department of Biomedical Engineering; Sungkyunkwan University; Suwon Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering; Sungkyunkwan University; Suwon Republic of Korea
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- Department of Radiology; Gachon University Gil Medical Center; Incheon Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering; Sungkyunkwan University; Suwon Republic of Korea
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Lin JM, Patterson AJ, Chao TC, Zhu C, Chang HC, Mendes J, Chung HW, Gillard JH, Graves MJ. Free-breathing black-blood CINE fast-spin echo imaging for measuring abdominal aortic wall distensibility: a feasibility study. Phys Med Biol 2017; 62:N204-N218. [PMID: 28327475 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/aa685a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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The paper reports a free-breathing black-blood CINE fast-spin echo (FSE) technique for measuring abdominal aortic wall motion. The free-breathing CINE FSE includes the following MR techniques: (1) variable-density sampling with fast iterative reconstruction; (2) inner-volume imaging; and (3) a blood-suppression preparation pulse. The proposed technique was evaluated in eight healthy subjects. The inner-volume imaging significantly reduced the intraluminal artifacts of respiratory motion (p = 0.015). The quantitative measurements were a diameter of 16.3 ± 2.8 mm and wall distensibility of 2.0 ± 0.4 mm (12.5 ± 3.4%) and 0.7 ± 0.3 mm (4.1 ± 1.0%) for the anterior and posterior walls, respectively. The cyclic cross-sectional distensibility was 35 ± 15% greater in the systolic phase than in the diastolic phase. In conclusion, we developed a feasible CINE FSE method to measure the motion of the abdominal aortic wall, which will enable clinical scientists to study the elasticity of the abdominal aorta.
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- Jyh-Miin Lin
- Department of Radiology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, United Kingdom. Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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Dai E, Dong L, Zhang Z, Li L, Zhang H, Zhao X, Wang J, Yuan C, Guo H. Technical Note: Measurement of common carotid artery lumen dynamics using black-blood MR cine imaging. Med Phys 2017; 44:1105-1112. [PMID: 28100004 DOI: 10.1002/mp.12114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2016] [Revised: 10/24/2016] [Accepted: 01/08/2017] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To demonstrate the feasibility of measuring the common carotid artery (CCA) lumen dynamics using a black-blood cine (BB-cine) imaging method. METHODS Motion-sensitized driven-equilibrium (MSDE) prepared spoiled gradient sequence was used for the BB-cine imaging. CCAs of eleven healthy volunteers were studied using this method. Lumen dynamics, including lumen area evolution waveforms and distension values, were measured and evaluated by comparing this method with bright-blood cine (BrB-cine) imaging. RESULTS Compared with the BrB-cine images, flow artifacts were effectively suppressed in the BB-cine images. BrB-cine images generally show larger lumen areas than BB-cine images. The lumen area waveforms and distension measurements from BB-cine imaging showed smaller variances among different subjects than BrB-cine imaging. CONCLUSIONS The proposed BB-cine imaging technique can suppress the flow artifacts effectively and reduce the partial volume effects from the vessel wall. This might allow more accurate lumen dynamics measurements than traditional BrB-cine imaging, which may further be valuable for investigating biomechanical and functional properties of the cardiovascular system.
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- Erpeng Dai
- Center for Biomedical Imaging Research, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- Department of Radiology, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100029, China
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- Center for Biomedical Imaging Research, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- Center for Biomedical Imaging Research, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- Center for Biomedical Imaging Research, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- Center for Biomedical Imaging Research, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- Clinical Sites Research Program, Philips Research North America, Briarcliff Manor, NY, 10510, USA
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- Center for Biomedical Imaging Research, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.,Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
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- Center for Biomedical Imaging Research, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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Boesen ME, Maior Neto LAS, Pulwicki A, Yerly J, Lebel RM, Frayne R. Fast spin echo imaging of carotid artery dynamics. Magn Reson Med 2014; 74:1103-9. [PMID: 25311135 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2014] [Revised: 09/20/2014] [Accepted: 09/22/2014] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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PURPOSE We propose the use of a retrospectively gated cine fast spin echo (FSE) sequence for characterization of carotid artery dynamics. The aim of this study was to compare cine FSE measures of carotid dynamics with measures obtained on prospectively gated FSE images. METHODS The common carotid arteries in 10 volunteers were imaged using two temporally resolved sequences: (i) cine FSE and (ii) prospectively gated FSE. Three raters manually traced a common carotid artery area for all cardiac phases on both sequences. Measured areas and systolic-diastolic area changes were calculated and compared. Inter- and intra-rater reliability were assessed for both sequences. RESULTS No significant difference between cine FSE and prospectively gated FSE areas were observed (P = 0.36). Both sequences produced repeatable cross-sectional area measurements: inter-rater intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) = 0.88 on cine FSE images and 0.87 on prospectively gated FSE images. Minimum detectable difference (MDD) in systolic-diastolic area was 4.9 mm(2) with cine FSE and 6.4 mm(2) with prospectively gated FSE. CONCLUSION This cine FSE method produced repeatable dynamic carotid artery measurements with less artifact and greater temporal efficiency compared with prospectively gated FSE.
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- Mari E Boesen
- Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.,Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.,Seaman Family Centre, Foothills Medical Centre, AB Health Services, Calgary, Canada
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- Seaman Family Centre, Foothills Medical Centre, AB Health Services, Calgary, Canada
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- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.,Seaman Family Centre, Foothills Medical Centre, AB Health Services, Calgary, Canada.,Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.,Radiology, University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.,Centre for Biomedical Imaging, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Seaman Family Centre, Foothills Medical Centre, AB Health Services, Calgary, Canada.,Radiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.,General Electric Healthcare, Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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- Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.,Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.,Seaman Family Centre, Foothills Medical Centre, AB Health Services, Calgary, Canada.,Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.,Radiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.,Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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Mendes J, Parker DL, Kim SE, Treiman GS. Reduced blood flow artifact in intraplaque hemorrhage imaging using CineMPRAGE. Magn Reson Med 2013; 69:1276-84. [PMID: 22760825 PMCID: PMC3465506 DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2011] [Revised: 05/01/2012] [Accepted: 05/04/2012] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Magnetization prepared rapid acquisition gradient echo (3D MPRAGE) has been shown to be a sensitive method to image carotid intraplaque hemorrhage. As the MPRAGE sequence used to identify potential intraplaque hemorrhage does not utilize cardiac gating, it is difficult to optimize the inversion times due to the dynamic nature of flowing blood. As a result, a best fit inversion time is often determined experimentally and then used for in vivo clinical examination. This results in compromised blood suppression and occasional hemorrhage mimicking flow artifacts. We demonstrate that a retrospective cardiac correlated reconstruction can be applied to the conventional MPRAGE sequence (CineMPRAGE) to more accurately identify blood signal. This CineMPRAGE reconstruction uses the data from a standard nongated MPRAGE sequence to generate a full sequence of cardiac correlated images throughout the cardiac cycle and, therefore, provides a dynamic view of the carotid artery and a better ability to discern blood signal from potential intraplaque hemorrhage. In our preliminary study of 35 patients, signal from potential hemorrhage was constant over the cardiac cycle, whereas any signal from blood flow artifact was observed as an oscillating signal over the cardiac cycle.
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- Jason Mendes
- Department of Radiology, Utah Center for Advanced Imaging Research, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108, USA.
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Koktzoglou I. 4D Dark Blood Arterial Wall Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Methodology and Demonstration in the Carotid Arteries. Magn Reson Med 2013; 69:956-65. [DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2012] [Revised: 12/06/2012] [Accepted: 01/02/2013] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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