Haonan Wang1, Ganesh Adluru2, Liyong Chen3, Eugene G Kholmovski4, Neal K Bangerter5, Edward V R DiBella4. 1. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA. 2. Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. Electronic address: gadluru@gmail.com. 3. Advanced MRI Technologies, Sebastopol, CA, United States. 4. Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA. 5. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA; Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Simultaneous multi-slice (SMS) imaging is a slice acceleration technique that acquires multiple slices in the same time as a single slice. Radial controlled aliasing in parallel imaging results in higher acceleration (radial CAIPIRINHA or CAIPI) is a promising SMS method with less severe slice aliasing artifacts as compared to its Cartesian counterpart. Here we use radial CAIPI with data undersampling and constrained reconstruction to improve the utility of ungated cardiac perfusion acquisitions. We test the proposed framework with a traditional saturation recovery fast low-angle shot (turboFLASH) sequence and also without saturation recovery as a steady-state spoiled gradient echo (SPGR) sequence on animal and human studies. METHODS: Simulations and phantom studies were performed for both the turboFLASH and the SPGR radial CAIPI methods. Ungated undersampled golden ratio radial CAIPI data with saturation recovery were acquired in 8 dogs and 2 human subjects. The CAIPI data without saturation pulses were acquired in 4 human subjects. For both methods, slice acceleration factors of two and three were used. A new spatio-temporal reconstruction using total variation and patch-based low rank constraints was used to jointly reconstruct the multi-slice multi-coil images. RESULTS: Phantom scans and computer simulations showed that ungated SPGR generally provides better contrast to noise ratio (CNR) than the saturation recovery sequence if the saturation recovery time is less than 100ms. Both of the ungated radial CAIPI methods demonstrated promising image quality in terms of preserving dynamics of the contrast agent and maintaining anatomical structures, even with three slices acquired simultaneously. CONCLUSION: Ungated simultaneous multi-slice acquisitions with either a saturation recovery turboFLASH sequence or a steady-state gradient echo SPGR sequence are feasible and provide increased slice coverage without loss of temporal resolution. Compared with a sensitivity encoding (SENSE) SMS reconstruction, the constrained reconstruction method provides better image quality for undersampled radial CAIPI data.
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