Cerebral blood volume mapping using Fourier-transform-based velocity-selective saturation pulse trains
| Autor: | Taehoon Shin, Zhibo Wen, Yaoming Qu, Qin Qin, Wenbo Li, Peter C.M. van Zijl, Dapeng Liu, Yansong Zhao, Doris D. M. Lin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Zdroj: | Magn Reson Med |
| ISSN: | 0740-3194 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/mrm.27668 |
| Popis: | PURPOSE Velocity-selective saturation (VSS) pulse trains provide a viable alternative to the spatially selective methods for measuring cerebral blood volume (CBV) by reducing the sensitivity to arterial transit time. This study is to compare the Fourier-transform-based velocity-selective saturation (FT-VSS) pulse trains with the conventional flow-dephasing VSS techniques for CBV quantification. METHODS The proposed FT-VSS label and control modules were compared with VSS pulse trains utilizing double refocused hyperbolic tangent (DRHT) and 8-segment B1-insensitive rotation (BIR-8). This was done using both numerical simulations and phantom studies to evaluate their sensitivities to gradient imperfections such as eddy currents. DRHT, BIR-8, and FT-VSS prepared CBV mapping was further compared for velocity-encoding gradients along 3 orthogonal directions in healthy subjects at 3T. RESULTS The phantom studies exhibited more consistent immunity to gradient imperfections for the utilized FT-VSS pulse trains. Compared to DRHT and BIR-8, FT-VSS delivered more robust CBV results across the 3 VS encoding directions with significantly reduced artifacts along the superior-inferior direction and improved temporal signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) values. Average CBV values obtained from FT-VSS based sequences were 5.3 mL/100 g for gray matter and 2.3 mL/100 g for white matter, comparable to literature expectations. CONCLUSION Absolute CBV quantification utilizing advanced FT-VSS pulse trains had several advantages over the existing approaches using flow-dephasing VSS modules. A greater immunity to gradient imperfections and the concurrent tissue background suppression of FT-VSS pulse trains enabled more robust CBV measurements and higher SNR than the conventional VSS pulse trains. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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