Yang Yang1, Craig H Meyer2,3, Frederick H Epstein2,3, Christopher M Kramer1,2, Michael Salerno1,2,3. 1. Departments of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia. 2. Radiology and Medical Imaging, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia. 3. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To develop and evaluate a simultaneous multislice (SMS) spiral perfusion pulse sequence with whole-heart coverage. METHODS: An orthogonal set of phase cycling angles following a Hadamard pattern was incorporated into a golden-angle (GA) variable density spiral perfusion sequence to perform SMS imaging at different multiband (MB) factors. Images were reconstructed using an SMS extension of L1-SPIRiT that we have termed SMS-L1-SPIRiT. The proposed sequence was evaluated in 40 subjects (10 each for MB factors of 1, 2, 3, and 4). Images were blindly graded by 2 cardiologists on a 5-point scale (5, excellent). To quantitatively evaluate the reconstruction performance against images acquired without SMS, the MB =1 data were used to retrospectively simulate data acquired at MB factors of 2 to 4. RESULTS: Analysis of the SMS point-spread function for the desired slice showed that the proposed sampling strategy significantly canceled the main-lobe energy of the other slices and has low side-lobe energy resulting in an incoherent temporal aliasing pattern when rotated by the GA. Retrospective experiments demonstrated the SMS-L1-SPIRiT method removed aliasing from the interfering slices and showed excellent agreement with the ground-truth MB =1 images. Clinical evaluation demonstrated high-quality perfusion images with average image-quality scores of 4.3 ± 0.5 (MB =2), 4.2 ± 0.5 (MB =3), and 4.4 ± 0.4 (MB =4) with no significant quality difference in image quality between MB factors (P = 0.38). CONCLUSION: SMS spiral perfusion at MB factors 2, 3, and 4 produces high-quality perfusion images with whole-heart coverage in a clinical setting with high sampling efficiency.
PURPOSE: To develop and evaluate a simultaneous multislice (SMS) spiral perfusion pulse sequence with whole-heart coverage. METHODS: An orthogonal set of phase cycling angles following a Hadamard pattern was incorporated into a golden-angle (GA) variable density spiral perfusion sequence to perform SMS imaging at different multiband (MB) factors. Images were reconstructed using an SMS extension of L1-SPIRiT that we have termed SMS-L1-SPIRiT. The proposed sequence was evaluated in 40 subjects (10 each for MB factors of 1, 2, 3, and 4). Images were blindly graded by 2 cardiologists on a 5-point scale (5, excellent). To quantitatively evaluate the reconstruction performance against images acquired without SMS, the MB =1 data were used to retrospectively simulate data acquired at MB factors of 2 to 4. RESULTS: Analysis of the SMS point-spread function for the desired slice showed that the proposed sampling strategy significantly canceled the main-lobe energy of the other slices and has low side-lobe energy resulting in an incoherent temporal aliasing pattern when rotated by the GA. Retrospective experiments demonstrated the SMS-L1-SPIRiT method removed aliasing from the interfering slices and showed excellent agreement with the ground-truth MB =1 images. Clinical evaluation demonstrated high-quality perfusion images with average image-quality scores of 4.3 ± 0.5 (MB =2), 4.2 ± 0.5 (MB =3), and 4.4 ± 0.4 (MB =4) with no significant quality difference in image quality between MB factors (P = 0.38). CONCLUSION:SMS spiral perfusion at MB factors 2, 3, and 4 produces high-quality perfusion images with whole-heart coverage in a clinical setting with high sampling efficiency.
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