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JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
卷 28, 期 3, 页码 736-743出版社
JOHN WILEY & SONS INC
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21489
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dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE)-MRI; pharmacokinetic modeling; arterial input function (AIF); bolus arrival delay; mean transit time; parameter accuracy
Purpose: To present a modified pharmacokinetic model for improved parameter accuracy and to investigate the influence of an inaccurate arterial input function (AIF) on dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE)-MRI parameter estimates of the transfer constant (K-trans). blood volume (up), and interstitial volume W. Materials and Methods: Tissue uptake curves were simulated over a large range of physiological values and analyzed for different AIF measurement errors and temporal resolutions. The AIF measurement was assumed to be inaccurate in the bolus amplitude (rapid sampling) or susceptible to unknown temporal offsets (slow sampling with biexponential decay fit). Results: The modified model adequately reduces errors in parameter estimates arising from transit time effects. An error in the AIF bolus amplitude results in an inversely proportional error in K-trans and nu(p); nu(e) remains robust. More consistent error in K-trans (approximate to 20% underestimation) was obtained using a biexponential AIF. at the expense of severely underestimating up. Conclusion: While an accurate. high temporal resolution AIF is essential for estimating up. a biexponential AIF acquired at low temporal resolution (<20 seconds) provides robust estimates of nu(e) and results in a K-trans underestimation comparable to that from a 25% error in the initial AIF bolus amplitude.
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