Journal
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE
Volume 78, Issue 6, Pages 2360-2372Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.26600
Keywords
MR elastography; anisotropy; transversely isotropic material; shear waves; inversion algorithms; heterogeneity
Funding
- NIH [NS055951]
- NSF [CMMI-1332433]
- Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn
- Directorate For Engineering [1332433] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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PurposeTo establish the essential requirements for characterization of a transversely isotropic material by magnetic resonance elastography (MRE). Theory and MethodsThree methods for characterizing nearly incompressible, transversely isotropic (ITI) materials were used to analyze data from closed-form expressions for traveling waves, finite-element (FE) simulations of waves in homogeneous ITI material, and FE simulations of waves in heterogeneous material. Key properties are the complex shear modulus (2), shear anisotropy =1/2-1, and tensile anisotropy =E1/E2-1. ResultsEach method provided good estimates of ITI parameters when both slow and fast shear waves with multiple propagation directions were present. No method gave accurate estimates when the displacement field contained only slow shear waves, only fast shear waves, or waves with only a single propagation direction. Methods based on directional filtering are robust to noise and include explicit checks of propagation and polarization. Curl-based methods led to more accurate estimates in low noise conditions. Parameter estimation in heterogeneous materials is challenging for all methods. ConclusionsMultiple shear waves, both slow and fast, with different propagation directions, must be present in the displacement field for accurate parameter estimates in ITI materials. Experimental design and data analysis can ensure that these requirements are met. Magn Reson Med 78:2360-2372, 2017. (c) 2017 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
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