Concurrent respiratory motion correction of abdominal PET and dynamic contrast-enhanced-MRI using a compressed sensing approach Articles uri icon

authors

  • FUIN, NICCOLO
  • CATALANO, ONOFRIO A.
  • SCIPIONI, MICHELE
  • CANJELS, LISANNE P.W.
  • IZQUIERDO GARCÍA, DAVID
  • PEDEMONTE, STEFANO
  • CATANA, CIPRIAN

publication date

  • September 2018

start page

  • 1474

end page

  • 1479

issue

  • 9

volume

  • 59

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0161-5505

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1535-5667

abstract

  • We present an approach for concurrent reconstruction of respiratory motion-compensated abdominal dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE)-MRI and PET data in an integrated PET/MR scanner. The MR and PET reconstructions share the same motion vector fields derived from radial MR data; the approach is robust to changes in respiratory pattern and does not increase the total acquisition time. Methods: PET and DCE-MRI data of 12 oncologic patients were simultaneously acquired for 6 min on an integrated PET/MR system after administration of 18F-FDG and gadoterate meglumine. Golden-angle radial MR data were continuously acquired simultaneously with PET data and sorted into multiple motion phases on the basis of a respiratory signal derived directly from the radial MR data. The resulting multidimensional dataset was reconstructed using a compressed sensing approach that exploits sparsity among respiratory phases. Motion vector fields obtained using the full 6-min (MC6-min) and only the last 1 min (MC1-min) of data were incorporated into the PET reconstruction to obtain motion-corrected PET images and in an MR iterative reconstruction algorithm to produce a series of motion-corrected DCE-MR images (moco_GRASP). The motion-correction methods (MC6-min and MC1-min) were evaluated by qualitative analysis of the MR images and quantitative analysis of SUVmax and SUVmean, contrast, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and lesion volume in the PET images. Results: Motion-corrected MC6-min PET images demonstrated 30%, 23%, 34%, and 18% increases in average SUVmax, SUVmean, contrast, and SNR and an average 40% reduction in lesion volume with respect to the non-motion-corrected PET images. The changes in these figures of merit were smaller but still substantial for the MC1-min protocol: 19%, 10%, 15%, and 9% increases in average SUVmax, SUVmean, contrast, and SNR; and a 28% reduction in lesion volume. Moco_GRASP images were deemed of acceptable or better diagnostic image quality with respect to conventional breath-hold Cartesian volumetric interpolated breath-hold examination acquisitions. Conclusion: We presented a method that allows the simultaneous acquisition of respiratory motion-orrected diagnostic quality DCE-MRI and quantitatively accurate PET data in an integrated PET/MR scanner with negligible prolongation in acquisition time compared with routine PET/DCE-MRI protocols.

subjects

  • Biology and Biomedicine

keywords

  • motion-correction; pet/mri; dce-mri; compressed sensing