Behzad Sharif1,2, Reza Arsanjani1,3,4, Rohan Dharmakumar1,2,4, C Noel Bairey Merz2,3,4,5, Daniel S Berman1,3,4, Debiao Li1,2,4. 1. Biomedical Imaging Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA. 2. Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA. 3. Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA. 4. David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA. 5. Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To develop and test the feasibility of a new method for non-ECG-gated first-pass perfusion (FPP) cardiac MR capable of imaging multiple short-axis slices at the same systolic cardiac phase. METHODS: A magnetization-driven pulse sequence was developed for non-ECG-gated FPP imaging without saturation-recovery preparation using continuous slice-interleaved radial sampling. The image reconstruction method, dubbed TRACE, used self-gating based on reconstruction of a real-time image-based navigator combined with reference-constrained compressed sensing. Data from ischemic animal studies (n = 5) was used in a simulation framework to evaluate temporal fidelity. Healthy subjects (n = 5) were studied using both the proposed approach and the conventional method to compare the myocardial contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR). Patients (n = 2) underwent adenosine stress studies using the proposed method. RESULTS: Temporal fidelity of the developed method was shown to be sufficient at high heart-rates. The healthy volunteers studies demonstrated normal perfusion and no dark-rim artifacts. Compared with the conventional scheme, myocardial CNR for the proposed method was slightly higher (8.6 ± 0.6 versus 8.0 ± 0.7). Patient studies showed stress-induced perfusion defects consistent with invasive angiography. CONCLUSION: The presented methods and results demonstrate feasibility of the proposed approach for high-resolution non-ECG-gated FPP imaging of 3 myocardial slices at the same systolic phase, and indicate its potential for achieving desirable image quality (high CNR and no dark-rim artifacts).
PURPOSE: To develop and test the feasibility of a new method for non-ECG-gated first-pass perfusion (FPP) cardiac MR capable of imaging multiple short-axis slices at the same systolic cardiac phase. METHODS: A magnetization-driven pulse sequence was developed for non-ECG-gated FPP imaging without saturation-recovery preparation using continuous slice-interleaved radial sampling. The image reconstruction method, dubbed TRACE, used self-gating based on reconstruction of a real-time image-based navigator combined with reference-constrained compressed sensing. Data from ischemic animal studies (n = 5) was used in a simulation framework to evaluate temporal fidelity. Healthy subjects (n = 5) were studied using both the proposed approach and the conventional method to compare the myocardial contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR). Patients (n = 2) underwent adenosine stress studies using the proposed method. RESULTS: Temporal fidelity of the developed method was shown to be sufficient at high heart-rates. The healthy volunteers studies demonstrated normal perfusion and no dark-rim artifacts. Compared with the conventional scheme, myocardial CNR for the proposed method was slightly higher (8.6 ± 0.6 versus 8.0 ± 0.7). Patient studies showed stress-induced perfusion defects consistent with invasive angiography. CONCLUSION: The presented methods and results demonstrate feasibility of the proposed approach for high-resolution non-ECG-gated FPP imaging of 3 myocardial slices at the same systolic phase, and indicate its potential for achieving desirable image quality (high CNR and no dark-rim artifacts).
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