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Automated perfusion-weighted MRI using localized arterial input functions.

Cory Lorenz1, Thomas Benner, Poe Jou Chen

  • 1Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard/MIT, Charlestown, Massachusetts 08129, USA.

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging : JMRI
|September 14, 2006
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An automated method using local arterial input functions (AIFs) for perfusion-weighted MRI (PWI) improves cerebral blood flow (CBF) estimation in stroke patients, outperforming traditional global AIF selection.

Area of Science:

  • Neuroimaging
  • Medical Physics
  • Radiology

Background:

  • Perfusion-weighted MRI (PWI) is crucial for assessing cerebral blood flow (CBF).
  • Traditional methods using global arterial input functions (AIFs) are susceptible to deconvolution errors from contrast bolus delay and dispersion.
  • Accurate AIF selection is vital for reliable CBF quantification.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate an automated PWI method utilizing localized AIFs for CBF estimation.
  • To compare the performance of localized AIFs against standard manual global AIF selection in stroke patients.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of spin- and gradient-echo EPI images from 36 stroke patients.
  • Development of a local AIF algorithm to identify optimal AIFs per voxel.

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  • Comparison of localized AIFs with global AIFs using generalized linear models and MTT lesion volume analysis.

    • Main Results:

    • The automated local AIF algorithm successfully identified AIFs without error in all cases.
    • Localized AIFs yielded a higher area under the ROC curve compared to global AIF methods.
    • Local MTT lesion volumes demonstrated the least mean squared error, indicating improved accuracy.

    Conclusions:

    • Automated CBF calculation using localized AIFs is a feasible and effective approach.
    • This automated method generates more accurate and useful CBF maps for clinical applications.