Design of a Patient-Specific Respiratory-Motion-Simulating Platform for In Vitro 4D Flow MRI

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Four-dimensional (4D) flow magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a leading-edge imaging technique and has numerous medicinal applications. In vitro 4D flow MRI can offer some advantages over in vivo ones, especially in accurately controlling flow rate (gold standard), removing patient and user-specific variations, and minimizing animal testing. Here, a complete testing method and a respiratory-motion-simulating platform are proposed for in vitro validation of 4D flow MRI. A silicon phantom based on the hepatic arteries of a living pig is made. Under the free-breathing, a human volunteer's liver motion (inferior-superior direction) is tracked using a pencil-beam MRI navigator and is extracted and converted into velocity-distance pairs to program the respiratory-motion-simulating platform. With the magnitude displacement of about 1.3 cm, the difference between the motions obtained from the volunteer and our platform is ≤ 1 mm which is within the positioning error of the MRI navigator. The influence of the platform on the MRI signal-to-noise ratio can be eliminated even if the actuator is placed in the MRI room. The 4D flow measurement errors are respectively 0.4% (stationary phantom), 9.4% (gating window = 3 mm), 27.3% (gating window = 4 mm) and 33.1% (gating window = 7 mm). The vessel resolutions decreased with the increase of the gating window. The low-cost simulation system, assembled from commercially available components, is easy to be duplicated.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:51

Enthalten in:

Annals of biomedical engineering - 51(2023), 5 vom: 29. Mai, Seite 1028-1039

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Li, Ning [VerfasserIn]
Tous, Cyril [VerfasserIn]
Dimov, Ivan P [VerfasserIn]
Fei, Phillip [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Quan [VerfasserIn]
Lessard, Simon [VerfasserIn]
Moran, Gerald [VerfasserIn]
Jin, Ning [VerfasserIn]
Kadoury, Samuel [VerfasserIn]
Tang, An [VerfasserIn]
Martel, Sylvain [VerfasserIn]
Soulez, Gilles [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

4D flow MRI
In vitro and in vivo
Journal Article
Liver motion
Respiratory-motion-simulating platform
Signal-to-noise ratio

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Date Completed 25.04.2023

Date Revised 25.04.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s10439-022-03117-6

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM350915911