Adam Bush1, Yaqiong Chai2, So Young Choi3, Lena Vaclavu4, Scott Holland5, Aart Nederveen4, Thomas Coates6, John Wood7. 1. Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, United States; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States. 2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States. 3. Neurosciences Program, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States. 4. Department of Radiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 5. Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States. 6. Division of Hematology, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States. 7. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States; Division of Cardiology, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States. Electronic address: jwood@chla.usc.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To investigate possible sources of quantification errors in global cerebral blood flow (CBF) measurements by comparing pseudo continuous arterial spin labeling (PCASL) and phase contrast (PC) MRI in anemic, hyperemic subjects. METHODS: All studies were performed on a Philips 3T Achieva MRI scanner. PC and PCASL CBF examinations were performed in 10 healthy, young adult subjects and 18 young adults with chronic anemia syndromes including sickle cell disease and thalassemia. CBF estimates from single and two compartment ASL kinetic models were compared. Numerical simulation and flow phantom experiments were used to explore the effects of blood velocity and B1+ on CBF quantification and labeling efficiency. RESULTS: PCASL CBF underestimated PC in both populations using a single compartment model (30.1±9.2% control, 45.2±17.2% anemia). Agreement substantially improved using a two-compartment model (-8.0±6.0% control, 11.7±12.3% anemia). Four of the anemic subjects exhibited venous outflow of ASL signal, suggestive of cerebrovascular shunt, possibly confounding PC-PCASL comparisons. Additionally, sub-study experiments demonstrated that B1+ was diminished at the labeling plane (82.9±5.1%), resulting in suboptimal labeling efficiency. Correcting labeling efficiency for diminished B1+, PCASL slightly overestimated PC CBF in controls (-15.4±6.8%) and resulted in better matching of CBF estimates in anemic subjects (0.7±10.0% without outflow, 10.5±9.4% with outflow). CONCLUSIONS: This work demonstrates that a two-compartment model is critical for PCASL quantification in hyperemic subjects. Venous outflow and B1+ under-excitation may also contribute to flow underestimation, but further study of these effects is required.
PURPOSE: To investigate possible sources of quantification errors in global cerebral blood flow (CBF) measurements by comparing pseudo continuous arterial spin labeling (PCASL) and phase contrast (PC) MRI in anemic, hyperemic subjects. METHODS: All studies were performed on a Philips 3T Achieva MRI scanner. PC and PCASL CBF examinations were performed in 10 healthy, young adult subjects and 18 young adults with chronic anemia syndromes including sickle cell disease and thalassemia. CBF estimates from single and two compartment ASL kinetic models were compared. Numerical simulation and flow phantom experiments were used to explore the effects of blood velocity and B1+ on CBF quantification and labeling efficiency. RESULTS: PCASL CBF underestimated PC in both populations using a single compartment model (30.1±9.2% control, 45.2±17.2% anemia). Agreement substantially improved using a two-compartment model (-8.0±6.0% control, 11.7±12.3% anemia). Four of the anemic subjects exhibited venous outflow of ASL signal, suggestive of cerebrovascular shunt, possibly confounding PC-PCASL comparisons. Additionally, sub-study experiments demonstrated that B1+ was diminished at the labeling plane (82.9±5.1%), resulting in suboptimal labeling efficiency. Correcting labeling efficiency for diminished B1+, PCASL slightly overestimated PC CBF in controls (-15.4±6.8%) and resulted in better matching of CBF estimates in anemic subjects (0.7±10.0% without outflow, 10.5±9.4% with outflow). CONCLUSIONS: This work demonstrates that a two-compartment model is critical for PCASL quantification in hyperemic subjects. Venous outflow and B1+ under-excitation may also contribute to flow underestimation, but further study of these effects is required.
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