Rosette spectroscopic imaging for whole-brain metabolite mapping at 7T: acceleration potential and reproducibility

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Main Authors: Huang, Zhiwei, Emir, Uzay, Doring, Andre, Klauser, Antoine, Xiao, Ying, Widmaier, Mark, Xin, Lijing
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author Huang, Zhiwei
Emir, Uzay
Doring, Andre
Klauser, Antoine
Xiao, Ying
Widmaier, Mark
Xin, Lijing
author_facet Huang, Zhiwei
Emir, Uzay
Doring, Andre
Klauser, Antoine
Xiao, Ying
Widmaier, Mark
Xin, Lijing
contents Whole-brain proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (1H-MRSI) is a non-invasive technique for assessing neurochemical distribution in the brain, offering valuable insights into brain functions and neural diseases. It greatly benefits from the improved SNR at ultrahigh field strengths ($\geq$7T). However, 1H-MRSI still faces several challenges, such as long acquisition time and severe signal contaminations from water and lipids. In this study, 2D and 3D short TR/TE 1H-FID-MRSI sequences using rosette trajectories were developed with spatial resolutions of 4.48$\times$4.48 mm$^2$ and 4.48$\times$4.48$\times$4.50 mm$^3$, respectively. Water signals were suppressed using an optimized Five-variable-Angle-gaussian-pulses-with-ShorT-total-duration of 76 ms (FAST) water suppression scheme, and lipid signals were removed using the L2 regularization method. Metabolic maps of major 1H metabolites were obtained within 5:40 min with 16 averages and 1 average for the 2D and 3D acquisitions, respectively. Excellent inter-session reproducibility was shown, with the coefficients of variance (CV) being lower than 6% for N-Acetyle-L-aspartic acid (NAA), Glutamate (Glu), Choline Chloride and glycerophosphocholine (tCho), Creatine and Phosphocreatine (tCr), and Glycine and Myo-inositol (Gly+Ins). To explore the potential of further accelerating the acquisition, compressed sensing was applied retrospectively to the 3D datasets. The structural similarity index (SSIM) remained above 0.85 and 0.8 until $R = 2$ and $R = 3$ for the metabolite maps of Glu, NAA, tCr, and tCho, indicating the possibility for further reduction of acquisition time to around 2min.
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spellingShingle Rosette spectroscopic imaging for whole-brain metabolite mapping at 7T: acceleration potential and reproducibility
Huang, Zhiwei
Emir, Uzay
Doring, Andre
Klauser, Antoine
Xiao, Ying
Widmaier, Mark
Xin, Lijing
Medical Physics
Whole-brain proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (1H-MRSI) is a non-invasive technique for assessing neurochemical distribution in the brain, offering valuable insights into brain functions and neural diseases. It greatly benefits from the improved SNR at ultrahigh field strengths ($\geq$7T). However, 1H-MRSI still faces several challenges, such as long acquisition time and severe signal contaminations from water and lipids. In this study, 2D and 3D short TR/TE 1H-FID-MRSI sequences using rosette trajectories were developed with spatial resolutions of 4.48$\times$4.48 mm$^2$ and 4.48$\times$4.48$\times$4.50 mm$^3$, respectively. Water signals were suppressed using an optimized Five-variable-Angle-gaussian-pulses-with-ShorT-total-duration of 76 ms (FAST) water suppression scheme, and lipid signals were removed using the L2 regularization method. Metabolic maps of major 1H metabolites were obtained within 5:40 min with 16 averages and 1 average for the 2D and 3D acquisitions, respectively. Excellent inter-session reproducibility was shown, with the coefficients of variance (CV) being lower than 6% for N-Acetyle-L-aspartic acid (NAA), Glutamate (Glu), Choline Chloride and glycerophosphocholine (tCho), Creatine and Phosphocreatine (tCr), and Glycine and Myo-inositol (Gly+Ins). To explore the potential of further accelerating the acquisition, compressed sensing was applied retrospectively to the 3D datasets. The structural similarity index (SSIM) remained above 0.85 and 0.8 until $R = 2$ and $R = 3$ for the metabolite maps of Glu, NAA, tCr, and tCho, indicating the possibility for further reduction of acquisition time to around 2min.
title Rosette spectroscopic imaging for whole-brain metabolite mapping at 7T: acceleration potential and reproducibility
topic Medical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05245