High-resolution myelin-water fraction and quantitative relaxation mapping using 3D ViSTa-MR fingerprinting

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PURPOSE: This study aims to develop a high-resolution whole-brain multi-parametric quantitative MRI approach for simultaneous mapping of myelin-water fraction (MWF), T1, T2, and proton-density (PD), all within a clinically feasible scan time.

METHODS: We developed 3D visualization of short transverse relaxation time component (ViSTa)-MRF, which combined ViSTa technique with MR fingerprinting (MRF), to achieve high-fidelity whole-brain MWF and T1/T2/PD mapping on a clinical 3T scanner. To achieve fast acquisition and memory-efficient reconstruction, the ViSTa-MRF sequence leverages an optimized 3D tiny-golden-angle-shuffling spiral-projection acquisition and joint spatial-temporal subspace reconstruction with optimized preconditioning algorithm. With the proposed ViSTa-MRF approach, high-fidelity direct MWF mapping was achieved without a need for multicompartment fitting that could introduce bias and/or noise from additional assumptions or priors.

RESULTS: The in vivo results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed acquisition and reconstruction framework to provide fast multi-parametric mapping with high SNR and good quality. The in vivo results of 1 mm- and 0.66 mm-isotropic resolution datasets indicate that the MWF values measured by the proposed method are consistent with standard ViSTa results that are 30× slower with lower SNR. Furthermore, we applied the proposed method to enable 5-min whole-brain 1 mm-iso assessment of MWF and T1/T2/PD mappings for infant brain development and for post-mortem brain samples.

CONCLUSIONS: In this work, we have developed a 3D ViSTa-MRF technique that enables the acquisition of whole-brain MWF, quantitative T1, T2, and PD maps at 1 and 0.66 mm isotropic resolution in 5 and 15 min, respectively. This advancement allows for quantitative investigations of myelination changes in the brain.

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UpdateOf: ArXiv. 2023 Dec 21;:. - PMID 38196746

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:91

Enthalten in:

Magnetic resonance in medicine - 91(2024), 6 vom: 19. Apr., Seite 2278-2293

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Liao, Congyu [VerfasserIn]
Cao, Xiaozhi [VerfasserIn]
Iyer, Siddharth Srinivasan [VerfasserIn]
Schauman, Sophie [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Zihan [VerfasserIn]
Yan, Xiaoqian [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Quan [VerfasserIn]
Li, Zhitao [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Nan [VerfasserIn]
Gong, Ting [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Zhe [VerfasserIn]
He, Hongjian [VerfasserIn]
Zhong, Jianhui [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Yang [VerfasserIn]
Kerr, Adam [VerfasserIn]
Grill-Spector, Kalanit [VerfasserIn]
Setsompop, Kawin [VerfasserIn]

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059QF0KO0R
High resolution
Journal Article
Myelin‐water fraction
Quantitative MRI
Water

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Date Completed 08.04.2024

Date Revised 08.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

UpdateOf: ArXiv. 2023 Dec 21;:. - PMID 38196746

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/mrm.29990

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM366475916