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MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE
卷 54, 期 4, 页码 841-849出版社
JOHN WILEY & SONS INC
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20608
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renal; T-weighted; perfusion; deconvolution; quantification
The feasibility of a voxel-by-voxel deconvolution analysis of T-1-weighted DCE data in the human kidney and its potential for obtaining quantification of perfusion and filtration was investigated. Measurements were performed on 14 normal humans and 1 transplant at 1.5 T using a Turboflash sequence. Signal time-courses were converted to tracer concentrations and deconvolved with an aorta AIR Parametric maps of relative renal blood flow (rRBF), relative renal volume of distribution (rRVD), relative mean transit time (rMTT), and whole cortex extraction fraction (E) were obtained from the impulse response functions. For the normals average cortical rRBF, rRVD, rMTT, and E were 1.6 mL/min/mL (SD 0.8), 0.4 mL/mL (SD 0.1), 17s (SD 7), and 22.6% (SD 6.1), respectively. A gradual voxelwise rRBF increase is found from the center of two infarction zones toward the edges. Voxel IRFs showed more detail on the nefron substructure than ROI IRFs. In conclusion, quantitative voxelwise perfusion mapping based on deconvolved T-1-DCE renal data is feasible, but absolute quantification requires inflow correction. rRBF maps and quantitative values are sufficiently sensitive to detect perfusion abnormality in pathologic areas, but further research is necessary to separate perfusion from extraction and to characterize the different compartments of the nephron on the (sub)voxel level.
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