Omer Burak Demirel1,2, Sebastian Weingärtner1,2,3, Steen Moeller2, Mehmet Akçakaya1,2. 1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. 2. Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. 3. Department of Imaging Physics, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To develop and evaluate a simultaneous multislice (SMS) reconstruction technique that provides noise reduction and leakage blocking for highly accelerated cardiac MRI. METHODS: ReadOut Concatenated k-space SPIRiT (ROCK-SPIRiT) uses the concept of readout concatenation in image domain to represent SMS encoding, and performs coil self-consistency as in SPIRiT-type reconstruction in an extended k-space, while allowing regularization for further denoising. The proposed method is implemented with and without regularization, and validated on retrospectively SMS-accelerated cine imaging with three-fold SMS and two-fold in-plane acceleration. ROCK-SPIRiT is compared with two leakage-blocking SMS reconstruction methods: readout-SENSE-GRAPPA and split slice-GRAPPA. Further evaluation and comparisons are performed using prospectively SMS-accelerated cine imaging. RESULTS: Results on retrospectively three-fold SMS and two-fold in-plane accelerated cine imaging show that ROCK-SPIRiT without regularization significantly improves on existing methods in terms of PSNR (readout-SENSE-GRAPPA: 33.5 ± 3.2, split slice-GRAPPA: 34.1 ± 3.8, ROCK-SPIRiT: 35.0 ± 3.3) and SSIM (readout-SENSE-GRAPPA: 84.4 ± 8.9, split slice-GRAPPA: 85.0 ± 8.9, ROCK-SPIRiT: 88.2 ± 6.6 [in percentage]). Regularized ROCK-SPIRiT significantly outperforms all methods, as characterized by these quantitative metrics (PSNR: 37.6 ± 3.8, SSIM: 94.2 ± 4.1 [in percentage]). The prospectively five-fold SMS and two-fold in-plane accelerated data show that ROCK-SPIRiT and regularized ROCK-SPIRiT have visually improved image quality compared with existing methods. CONCLUSION: The proposed ROCK-SPIRiT technique reduces noise and interslice leakage in accelerated SMS cardiac cine MRI, improving on existing methods both quantitatively and qualitatively.
PURPOSE: To develop and evaluate a simultaneous multislice (SMS) reconstruction technique that provides noise reduction and leakage blocking for highly accelerated cardiac MRI. METHODS: ReadOut Concatenated k-space SPIRiT (ROCK-SPIRiT) uses the concept of readout concatenation in image domain to represent SMS encoding, and performs coil self-consistency as in SPIRiT-type reconstruction in an extended k-space, while allowing regularization for further denoising. The proposed method is implemented with and without regularization, and validated on retrospectively SMS-accelerated cine imaging with three-fold SMS and two-fold in-plane acceleration. ROCK-SPIRiT is compared with two leakage-blocking SMS reconstruction methods: readout-SENSE-GRAPPA and split slice-GRAPPA. Further evaluation and comparisons are performed using prospectively SMS-accelerated cine imaging. RESULTS: Results on retrospectively three-fold SMS and two-fold in-plane accelerated cine imaging show that ROCK-SPIRiT without regularization significantly improves on existing methods in terms of PSNR (readout-SENSE-GRAPPA: 33.5 ± 3.2, split slice-GRAPPA: 34.1 ± 3.8, ROCK-SPIRiT: 35.0 ± 3.3) and SSIM (readout-SENSE-GRAPPA: 84.4 ± 8.9, split slice-GRAPPA: 85.0 ± 8.9, ROCK-SPIRiT: 88.2 ± 6.6 [in percentage]). Regularized ROCK-SPIRiT significantly outperforms all methods, as characterized by these quantitative metrics (PSNR: 37.6 ± 3.8, SSIM: 94.2 ± 4.1 [in percentage]). The prospectively five-fold SMS and two-fold in-plane accelerated data show that ROCK-SPIRiT and regularized ROCK-SPIRiT have visually improved image quality compared with existing methods. CONCLUSION: The proposed ROCK-SPIRiT technique reduces noise and interslice leakage in accelerated SMS cardiac cine MRI, improving on existing methods both quantitatively and qualitatively.
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