Peter J Niedbalski1, Junlan Lu2, Chase S Hall1, Mario Castro1, John P Mugler3, Yun M Shim4, Bastiaan Driehuys5. 1. Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA. 2. Medical Physics Graduate Program, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. 3. Center for In-vivo Hyperpolarized Gas MR Imaging, Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. 4. Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. 5. Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To reduce scan duration in hyperpolarized 129 Xe 1-point Dixon gas exchange imaging by utilizing flip angle (FA)/TR equivalence. METHODS: Images were acquired in 12 subjects (n = 3 radiation therapy, n = 1 unexplained dyspnea, n = 8 healthy) using both standard (TR = 15 ms, FA = 20°, duration = 15 s, 998 projections) and "fast" (TR = 5.4 ms, FA = 12°, duration = 11.3 s, 2100 projections) acquisition parameters. For the fast acquisition, 3 image sets were reconstructed using subsets of 1900, 1500, and 1000 projections. From the resulting ventilation, tissue ("barrier"), and red blood cell (RBC) images, image metrics and biomarkers were compared to assess agreement between methods. RESULTS: Images acquired using both FA/TR settings had similar qualitative appearance. There were no significant differences in SNR, image mean, or image SD between images. Moreover, the percentage of the lungs in "defect", "normal", and "high" bins for each image (ventilation, RBC, barrier) was not significantly different among the acquisition types. After registration, comparison of 3D image metrics (Dice, volume similarity, average distance) agreed well between bins. Images using 1000 projections for reconstruction had no significant differences from images using all projections. CONCLUSION: Using flip angle/TR equivalence, hyperpolarized 129 Xe gas exchange images can be acquired via the 1-point Dixon technique in as little as 6 s, compared to ~15 s for previously reported parameter settings. The resulting images from this accelerated scan have no significant differences from the standard method in qualitative appearance or quantitative metrics.
PURPOSE: To reduce scan duration in hyperpolarized 129 Xe 1-point Dixon gas exchange imaging by utilizing flip angle (FA)/TR equivalence. METHODS: Images were acquired in 12 subjects (n = 3 radiation therapy, n = 1 unexplained dyspnea, n = 8 healthy) using both standard (TR = 15 ms, FA = 20°, duration = 15 s, 998 projections) and "fast" (TR = 5.4 ms, FA = 12°, duration = 11.3 s, 2100 projections) acquisition parameters. For the fast acquisition, 3 image sets were reconstructed using subsets of 1900, 1500, and 1000 projections. From the resulting ventilation, tissue ("barrier"), and red blood cell (RBC) images, image metrics and biomarkers were compared to assess agreement between methods. RESULTS: Images acquired using both FA/TR settings had similar qualitative appearance. There were no significant differences in SNR, image mean, or image SD between images. Moreover, the percentage of the lungs in "defect", "normal", and "high" bins for each image (ventilation, RBC, barrier) was not significantly different among the acquisition types. After registration, comparison of 3D image metrics (Dice, volume similarity, average distance) agreed well between bins. Images using 1000 projections for reconstruction had no significant differences from images using all projections. CONCLUSION: Using flip angle/TR equivalence, hyperpolarized 129 Xe gas exchange images can be acquired via the 1-point Dixon technique in as little as 6 s, compared to ~15 s for previously reported parameter settings. The resulting images from this accelerated scan have no significant differences from the standard method in qualitative appearance or quantitative metrics.
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