Free-breathing 3D cardiac extracellular volume (ECV) mapping using a linear tangent space alignment (LTSA) model

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Main Authors: Lee, Wonil, Han, Paul Kyu, Marin, Thibault, Mounime, Ismaël B. G., Eslahi, Samira Vafay, Djebra, Yanis, Chi, Didi, Bijari, Felicitas J., Normandin, Marc D., Fakhri, Georges El, Ma, Chao
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author Lee, Wonil
Han, Paul Kyu
Marin, Thibault
Mounime, Ismaël B. G.
Eslahi, Samira Vafay
Djebra, Yanis
Chi, Didi
Bijari, Felicitas J.
Normandin, Marc D.
Fakhri, Georges El
Ma, Chao
author_facet Lee, Wonil
Han, Paul Kyu
Marin, Thibault
Mounime, Ismaël B. G.
Eslahi, Samira Vafay
Djebra, Yanis
Chi, Didi
Bijari, Felicitas J.
Normandin, Marc D.
Fakhri, Georges El
Ma, Chao
contents $\textbf{Purpose:}$ To develop a new method for free-breathing 3D extracellular volume (ECV) mapping of the whole heart at 3T. $\textbf{Methods:}$ A free-breathing 3D cardiac ECV mapping method was developed at 3T. T1 mapping was performed before and after contrast agent injection using a free-breathing ECG-gated inversion-recovery sequence with spoiled gradient echo readout. A linear tangent space alignment (LTSA) model-based method was used to reconstruct high-frame-rate dynamic images from (k,t)-space data sparsely sampled along a random stack-of-stars trajectory. Joint T1 and transmit B1 estimation was performed voxel-by-voxel for pre- and post-contrast T1 mapping. To account for the time-varying T1 after contrast agent injection, a linearly time-varying T1 model was introduced for post-contrast T1 mapping. ECV maps were generated by aligning pre- and post-contrast T1 maps through affine transformation. $\textbf{Results:}$ The feasibility of the proposed method was demonstrated using in vivo studies with six healthy volunteers at 3T. We obtained 3D ECV maps at a spatial resolution of 1.9$\times$1.9$\times$4.5 $mm^{3}$ and a FOV of 308$\times$308$\times$144 $mm^{3}$, with a scan time of 10.1$\pm$1.4 and 10.6$\pm$1.6 min before and after contrast agent injection, respectively. The ECV maps and the pre- and post-contrast T1 maps obtained by the proposed method were in good agreement with the 2D MOLLI method both qualitatively and quantitatively. $\textbf{Conclusion:}$ The proposed method allows for free-breathing 3D ECV mapping of the whole heart within a practically feasible imaging time. The estimated ECV values from the proposed method were comparable to those from the existing method. $\textbf{Keywords:}$ cardiac extracellular volume (ECV) mapping, cardiac T1 mapping, linear tangent space alignment (LTSA), manifold learning
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spellingShingle Free-breathing 3D cardiac extracellular volume (ECV) mapping using a linear tangent space alignment (LTSA) model
Lee, Wonil
Han, Paul Kyu
Marin, Thibault
Mounime, Ismaël B. G.
Eslahi, Samira Vafay
Djebra, Yanis
Chi, Didi
Bijari, Felicitas J.
Normandin, Marc D.
Fakhri, Georges El
Ma, Chao
Medical Physics
Image and Video Processing
$\textbf{Purpose:}$ To develop a new method for free-breathing 3D extracellular volume (ECV) mapping of the whole heart at 3T. $\textbf{Methods:}$ A free-breathing 3D cardiac ECV mapping method was developed at 3T. T1 mapping was performed before and after contrast agent injection using a free-breathing ECG-gated inversion-recovery sequence with spoiled gradient echo readout. A linear tangent space alignment (LTSA) model-based method was used to reconstruct high-frame-rate dynamic images from (k,t)-space data sparsely sampled along a random stack-of-stars trajectory. Joint T1 and transmit B1 estimation was performed voxel-by-voxel for pre- and post-contrast T1 mapping. To account for the time-varying T1 after contrast agent injection, a linearly time-varying T1 model was introduced for post-contrast T1 mapping. ECV maps were generated by aligning pre- and post-contrast T1 maps through affine transformation. $\textbf{Results:}$ The feasibility of the proposed method was demonstrated using in vivo studies with six healthy volunteers at 3T. We obtained 3D ECV maps at a spatial resolution of 1.9$\times$1.9$\times$4.5 $mm^{3}$ and a FOV of 308$\times$308$\times$144 $mm^{3}$, with a scan time of 10.1$\pm$1.4 and 10.6$\pm$1.6 min before and after contrast agent injection, respectively. The ECV maps and the pre- and post-contrast T1 maps obtained by the proposed method were in good agreement with the 2D MOLLI method both qualitatively and quantitatively. $\textbf{Conclusion:}$ The proposed method allows for free-breathing 3D ECV mapping of the whole heart within a practically feasible imaging time. The estimated ECV values from the proposed method were comparable to those from the existing method. $\textbf{Keywords:}$ cardiac extracellular volume (ECV) mapping, cardiac T1 mapping, linear tangent space alignment (LTSA), manifold learning
title Free-breathing 3D cardiac extracellular volume (ECV) mapping using a linear tangent space alignment (LTSA) model
topic Medical Physics
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.12706