Zidan Yu1,2, Shota Hodono1,2,3, Olga Dergachyova1, Tom Hilbert4,5,6, Bili Wang1, Bei Zhang1,7, Ryan Brown1,2, Daniel K Sodickson1,2, Guillaume Madelin1,2, Martijn A Cloos1,2,3. 1. Center for Advanced Imaging Innovation and Research (CAI2R), Department of Radiology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA. 2. The Vilcek Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA. 3. The Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia. 4. Advanced Clinical Imaging Technology, Siemens Healthcare AG, Lausanne, Switzerland. 5. Department of Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. 6. LTS5, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. 7. Advanced Imaging Research Center, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To develop a 3D MR technique to simultaneously acquire proton multiparametric maps (T1 , T2 , and proton density) and sodium density weighted images over the whole brain. METHODS: We implemented a 3D stack-of-stars MR pulse sequence which consists of interleaved proton (1 H) and sodium (23 Na) excitations, tailored slice encoding gradients that can encode the same slice for both nuclei, and simultaneous readout with different radial trajectories (1 H, full-radial; 23 Na, center-out radial). The receive chain of our 7T scanner was modified to enable simultaneous acquisition of 1 H and 23 Na signal. A heuristically optimized flip angle train was implemented for proton MR fingerprinting (MRF). The SNR and the accuracy of proton T1 and T2 were evaluated in phantoms. Finally, in vivo application of the method was demonstrated in five healthy subjects. RESULTS: The SNR for the simultaneous measurement was almost identical to that for the single-nucleus measurements (<2% change). The proton T1 and T2 maps remained similar to the results from a reference 2D MRF technique (normalized RMS error in T1 ≈ 4.2% and T2 ≈ 11.3%). Measurements in healthy subjects corroborated these results and demonstrated the feasibility of our method for in vivo application. The in vivo T1 values measured using our method were lower than the results measured by other conventional techniques. CONCLUSIONS: With the 3D simultaneous implementation, we were able to acquire sodium and proton density weighted images in addition to proton T1 , T2 , and B 1 + from 1 H MRF that covers the whole brain volume within 21 min.
PURPOSE: To develop a 3D MR technique to simultaneously acquire proton multiparametric maps (T1 , T2 , and proton density) and sodium density weighted images over the whole brain. METHODS: We implemented a 3D stack-of-stars MR pulse sequence which consists of interleaved proton (1 H) and sodium (23 Na) excitations, tailored slice encoding gradients that can encode the same slice for both nuclei, and simultaneous readout with different radial trajectories (1 H, full-radial; 23 Na, center-out radial). The receive chain of our 7T scanner was modified to enable simultaneous acquisition of 1 H and 23 Na signal. A heuristically optimized flip angle train was implemented for proton MR fingerprinting (MRF). The SNR and the accuracy of proton T1 and T2 were evaluated in phantoms. Finally, in vivo application of the method was demonstrated in five healthy subjects. RESULTS: The SNR for the simultaneous measurement was almost identical to that for the single-nucleus measurements (<2% change). The proton T1 and T2 maps remained similar to the results from a reference 2D MRF technique (normalized RMS error in T1 ≈ 4.2% and T2 ≈ 11.3%). Measurements in healthy subjects corroborated these results and demonstrated the feasibility of our method for in vivo application. The in vivo T1 values measured using our method were lower than the results measured by other conventional techniques. CONCLUSIONS: With the 3D simultaneous implementation, we were able to acquire sodium and proton density weighted images in addition to proton T1 , T2 , and B 1 + from 1 H MRF that covers the whole brain volume within 21 min.
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