Journal
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE
Volume 70, Issue 4, Pages 1005-1015Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24538
Keywords
coronary MRI; respiratory motion; diaphragmatic navigators; retrospective motion correction
Funding
- NIH [R01EB008743-01A2, AHA SDG-0730339N]
- NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada)
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Respiratory motion compensation using diaphragmatic navigator gating with a 5 mm gating window is conventionally used for free-breathing cardiac MRI. Because of the narrow gating window, scan efficiency is low resulting in long scan times, especially for patients with irregular breathing patterns. In this work, a new retrospective motion compensation algorithm is presented to reduce the scan time for free-breathing cardiac MRI that increasing the gating window to 15 mm without compromising image quality. The proposed algorithm iteratively corrects for respiratory-induced cardiac motion by optimizing the sharpness of the heart. To evaluate this technique, two coronary MRI datasets with 1.3 mm(3) resolution were acquired from 11 healthy subjects (seven females, 25 +/- 9 years); one using a navigator with a 5 mm gating window acquired in 12.0 +/- 2.0 min and one with a 15 mm gating window acquired in 7.1 +/- 1.0 min. The images acquired with a 15 mm gating window were corrected using the proposed algorithm and compared to the uncorrected images acquired with the 5 and 15 mm gating windows. The image quality score, sharpness, and length of the three major coronary arteries were equivalent between the corrected images and the images acquired with a 5 mm gating window (P-value > 0.05), while the scan time was reduced by a factor of 1.7. Magn Reson Med, 70:1005-1015, 2013. (c) 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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