Analysis of accelerated 4D flow MRI in the murine aorta by radial acquisition and compressed sensing reconstruction

Abstract: Preclinical 4D flow MRI remains challenging and is restricted for parallel imaging acceleration due to the limited number of available receive channels. A radial acquisition with combined parallel imaging and temporal compressed sensing reconstruction was implemented to achieve accelerated preclinical 4D flow MRI. In order to increase the accuracy of the measured velocities, a quantitative evaluation of different temporal regularization weights for the compressed sensing reconstruction based on velocity instead of magnitude data is performed. A 3D radial retrospectively triggered phase contrast sequence with a combined parallel imaging and compressed sensing reconstruction with temporal regularization was developed. It was validated in a phantom and in vivo (C57BL/6 J mice), against an established fully sampled Cartesian sequence. Different undersampling factors (USFs [12, 15, 20, 30, 60]) were evaluated, and the effect of undersampling was analyzed in detail for magnitude and velocity data. Temporal regularization weights λ were evaluated for different USFs. Acceleration factors of up to 20 compared with full Nyquist sampling were achieved. The peak flow differences compared with the Cartesian measurement were the following: USF 12, 3.38%; USF 15, 4.68%; USF 20, 0.95%. The combination of 3D radial center‐out trajectories and compressed sensing reconstruction is robust against motion and flow artifacts and can significantly reduce measurement time to 30 min at a resolution of 180 μm3. Concisely, radial acquisition with combined compressed sensing and parallel imaging proved to be an excellent method for analyzing complex flow patterns in mice

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: NMR in biomedicine. - 33, 11 (2020) , e4394, ISSN: 1099-1492

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Freiburg
• (who): Universität
• (when): 2020
• Creator: Braig, Moritz ; Menza, Marius ; Leupold, Jochen ; LeVan, Pierre ; Li, Feng ; Ko, Cheng-Wen ; Zur Mühlen, Constantin von ; Krafft, Axel Joachim ; Hennig, Jürgen ; Elverfeldt, Dominik von

Further information

• DOI: 10.1002/nbm.4394
• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-1669466
• Rights: Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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