Esau Poblador Rodriguez1, Philipp Moser1, Sami Auno2, Korbinian Eckstein1, Barbara Dymerska3, Andre van der Kouwe4, Stephan Gruber1, Siegfried Trattnig1,5, Wolfgang Bogner1. 1. High Field MR Center, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria. 2. Neuroscience Center, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. 3. Medical Physics and Bioengineering, University College London, London, United Kingdom. 4. Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. 5. Christian Doppler Laboratory for Clinical Molecular MR Imaging, Vienna, Austria.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To explore the impact of temporal motion-induced coil sensitivity changes on CEST-MRI at 7T and its correction using interleaved volumetric EPI navigators, which are applied for real-time motion correction. METHODS: Five healthy volunteers were scanned via CEST. A 4-fold correction pipeline allowed the mitigation of (1) motion, (2) motion-induced coil sensitivity variations, Δ B 1 - , (3) motion-induced static magnetic field inhomogeneities, ΔB0 , and (4) spatially varying transmit RF field fluctuations, ΔB 1 + . Four CEST measurements were performed per session. For the first 2, motion correction was turned OFF and then ON in absence of voluntary motion, whereas in the other 2 controlled head rotations were performed. During post-processing Δ B 1 - was removed additionally for the motion-corrected cases, resulting in a total of 6 scenarios to be compared. In all cases, retrospective ∆B0 and - ΔB 1 + corrections were performed to compute artifact-free magnetization transfer ratio maps with asymmetric analysis (MTRasym ). RESULTS: Dynamic Δ B 1 - correction successfully mitigated signal deviations caused by head motion. In 2 frontal lobe regions of volunteer 4, induced relative signal errors of 10.9% and 3.9% were reduced to 1.1% and 1.0% after correction. In the right frontal lobe, the motion-corrected MTRasym contrast deviated 0.92%, 1.21%, and 2.97% relative to the static case for Δω = 1, 2, 3 ± 0.25 ppm. The additional application of Δ B 1 - correction reduced these deviations to 0.10%, 0.14%, and 0.42%. The fully corrected MTRasym values were highly consistent between measurements with and without intended head rotations. CONCLUSION: Temporal Δ B 1 - cause significant CEST quantification bias. The presented correction pipeline including the proposed retrospective Δ B 1 - correction significantly reduced motion-related artifacts on CEST-MRI.
PURPOSE: To explore the impact of temporal motion-induced coil sensitivity changes on CEST-MRI at 7T and its correction using interleaved volumetric EPI navigators, which are applied for real-time motion correction. METHODS: Five healthy volunteers were scanned via CEST. A 4-fold correction pipeline allowed the mitigation of (1) motion, (2) motion-induced coil sensitivity variations, Δ B 1 - , (3) motion-induced static magnetic field inhomogeneities, ΔB0 , and (4) spatially varying transmit RF field fluctuations, ΔB 1 + . Four CEST measurements were performed per session. For the first 2, motion correction was turned OFF and then ON in absence of voluntary motion, whereas in the other 2 controlled head rotations were performed. During post-processing Δ B 1 - was removed additionally for the motion-corrected cases, resulting in a total of 6 scenarios to be compared. In all cases, retrospective ∆B0 and - ΔB 1 + corrections were performed to compute artifact-free magnetization transfer ratio maps with asymmetric analysis (MTRasym ). RESULTS: Dynamic Δ B 1 - correction successfully mitigated signal deviations caused by head motion. In 2 frontal lobe regions of volunteer 4, induced relative signal errors of 10.9% and 3.9% were reduced to 1.1% and 1.0% after correction. In the right frontal lobe, the motion-corrected MTRasym contrast deviated 0.92%, 1.21%, and 2.97% relative to the static case for Δω = 1, 2, 3 ± 0.25 ppm. The additional application of Δ B 1 - correction reduced these deviations to 0.10%, 0.14%, and 0.42%. The fully corrected MTRasym values were highly consistent between measurements with and without intended head rotations. CONCLUSION: Temporal Δ B 1 - cause significant CEST quantification bias. The presented correction pipeline including the proposed retrospective Δ B 1 - correction significantly reduced motion-related artifacts on CEST-MRI.
Keywords:
chemical exchange saturation transfer; coil sensitivity; inhomogeneities; motion correction; static magnetic field; ultra-high field magnetic resonance
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