Junghun Cho1, Shun Zhang2,3, Youngwook Kee2, Pascal Spincemaille2, Thanh D Nguyen2, Simon Hubertus4, Ajay Gupta2, Yi Wang1,2. 1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. 2. Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York. 3. Department of Radiology, Tongji Hospital, Wuhan, China. 4. Computer Assisted Clinical Medicine, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To improve the accuracy of QSM plus quantitative blood oxygen level-dependent magnitude (QSM + qBOLD or QQ)-based mapping of the oxygen extraction fraction (OEF) and cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen (CMRO2 ) using cluster analysis of time evolution (CAT). METHODS: 3D multi-echo gradient echo and arterial spin labeling images were acquired in 11 healthy subjects and 5 ischemic stroke patients. DWI was also carried out on patients. CAT was developed for analyzing signal evolution over TE. QQ-based OEF and CMRO2 were reconstructed with and without CAT, and results were compared using region of interest analysis and a paired t-test. RESULTS: Simulations demonstrated that CAT substantially reduced noise error in QQ-based OEF. In healthy subjects, QQ-based OEF appeared less noisy and more uniform with CAT than without CAT; average OEF with and without CAT in cortical gray matter was 32.7 ± 4.0% and 37.9 ± 4.5%, with corresponding CMRO2 of 148.4 ± 23.8 and 171.4 ± 22.4 μmol/100 g/min, respectively. In patients, regions of low OEF were confined within the ischemic lesions defined on DWI when using CAT, which was not observed without CAT. CONCLUSION: The cluster analysis of time evolution (CAT) significantly improves the robustness of QQ-based OEF against noise.
PURPOSE: To improve the accuracy of QSM plus quantitative blood oxygen level-dependent magnitude (QSM + qBOLD or QQ)-based mapping of the oxygen extraction fraction (OEF) and cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen (CMRO2 ) using cluster analysis of time evolution (CAT). METHODS: 3D multi-echo gradient echo and arterial spin labeling images were acquired in 11 healthy subjects and 5 ischemic strokepatients. DWI was also carried out on patients. CAT was developed for analyzing signal evolution over TE. QQ-based OEF and CMRO2 were reconstructed with and without CAT, and results were compared using region of interest analysis and a paired t-test. RESULTS: Simulations demonstrated that CAT substantially reduced noise error in QQ-based OEF. In healthy subjects, QQ-based OEF appeared less noisy and more uniform with CAT than without CAT; average OEF with and without CAT in cortical gray matter was 32.7 ± 4.0% and 37.9 ± 4.5%, with corresponding CMRO2 of 148.4 ± 23.8 and 171.4 ± 22.4 μmol/100 g/min, respectively. In patients, regions of low OEF were confined within the ischemic lesions defined on DWI when using CAT, which was not observed without CAT. CONCLUSION: The cluster analysis of time evolution (CAT) significantly improves the robustness of QQ-based OEF against noise.
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