Real-time fetAl brain and placental T2* mapping at 0.55T low-field MRI (RAT)

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Main Authors: Verdera, Jordina Aviles, Silva, Sara Neves, Tomi-Tricot, Raphael, Hall, Megan, Story, Lisa, Malik, Shaihan J, Hajnal, Joseph V, Rutherford, Mary A, Hutter, Jana
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author Verdera, Jordina Aviles
Silva, Sara Neves
Tomi-Tricot, Raphael
Hall, Megan
Story, Lisa
Malik, Shaihan J
Hajnal, Joseph V
Rutherford, Mary A
Hutter, Jana
author_facet Verdera, Jordina Aviles
Silva, Sara Neves
Tomi-Tricot, Raphael
Hall, Megan
Story, Lisa
Malik, Shaihan J
Hajnal, Joseph V
Rutherford, Mary A
Hutter, Jana
contents Purpose: To provide real-time quantitative organ-specific information - specifically placental and brain T2* - to allow optimization of the MR examination to the individual patient. Methods: A FIRE-based real-time setup segmenting placenta and fetal brain in real-time, performing T2* fitting and analysis and calculation of the centile was implemented. A nn-UNet were trained and tested on 2989 datasets for the fetal brain and a second one trained on 210 datasets for the placenta for automatic segmentation. T2* normal curves were obtained from 106 cases and prospective evaluation was performed on 10 cases between 35 and 39 weeks GA. Results: Quantitative brain and placental T2* maps and centiles were available in all prospective cases within 30 seconds. The robustness of the method was shown with intra-scan repeats (mean difference 1.04+/-12.39 ms for fetal brain and -3.15+/-8.88 ms for placenta) and direct validation with vendor-processed offline results (mean difference 1.62+/-4.33 ms for fetal brain and 0.16+/-6.19 ms for placenta). Discussion and Conclusion: Real-time available organ-specific quantitative information enables more personalized MR examinations, selection of the most pertinent sequences and thus the promise of reduced recalls and specific insights into tissue properties. The here enabled placental T2*, demonstrated in multiple recent studies to be a biomarker sensitive to a range of pregnancy complications, and fetal brain T2* will be explored in further studies in pregnancies with pre-eclampsia, growth restriction as a way of enabling future MR-guided fetal interventions.
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spellingShingle Real-time fetAl brain and placental T2* mapping at 0.55T low-field MRI (RAT)
Verdera, Jordina Aviles
Silva, Sara Neves
Tomi-Tricot, Raphael
Hall, Megan
Story, Lisa
Malik, Shaihan J
Hajnal, Joseph V
Rutherford, Mary A
Hutter, Jana
Medical Physics
Purpose: To provide real-time quantitative organ-specific information - specifically placental and brain T2* - to allow optimization of the MR examination to the individual patient. Methods: A FIRE-based real-time setup segmenting placenta and fetal brain in real-time, performing T2* fitting and analysis and calculation of the centile was implemented. A nn-UNet were trained and tested on 2989 datasets for the fetal brain and a second one trained on 210 datasets for the placenta for automatic segmentation. T2* normal curves were obtained from 106 cases and prospective evaluation was performed on 10 cases between 35 and 39 weeks GA. Results: Quantitative brain and placental T2* maps and centiles were available in all prospective cases within 30 seconds. The robustness of the method was shown with intra-scan repeats (mean difference 1.04+/-12.39 ms for fetal brain and -3.15+/-8.88 ms for placenta) and direct validation with vendor-processed offline results (mean difference 1.62+/-4.33 ms for fetal brain and 0.16+/-6.19 ms for placenta). Discussion and Conclusion: Real-time available organ-specific quantitative information enables more personalized MR examinations, selection of the most pertinent sequences and thus the promise of reduced recalls and specific insights into tissue properties. The here enabled placental T2*, demonstrated in multiple recent studies to be a biomarker sensitive to a range of pregnancy complications, and fetal brain T2* will be explored in further studies in pregnancies with pre-eclampsia, growth restriction as a way of enabling future MR-guided fetal interventions.
title Real-time fetAl brain and placental T2* mapping at 0.55T low-field MRI (RAT)
topic Medical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16878