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Nick Todd1, Ganesh Adluru, Allison Payne

  • 1Department of Physics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108, USA. nicktodd99@yahoo.com

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Accelerated MRI temperature mapping using temporally constrained reconstruction (TCR) improves thermal ablation monitoring. This method achieves significant data reduction while maintaining high temperature accuracy, outperforming other techniques.

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Area of Science:

  • Medical Imaging
  • Interventional Radiology
  • Biomedical Engineering

Background:

  • Real-time monitoring of thermal ablation procedures is crucial for patient safety and treatment efficacy.
  • Current MRI temperature mapping acquisition rates limit real-time monitoring capabilities.
  • Constrained reconstruction techniques offer potential for accelerated image acquisition by using partial k-space data.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate a temporally constrained reconstruction (TCR) algorithm for accelerated MRI temperature mapping.
  • To assess the performance of TCR using proton resonance frequency shift (PRF) data in both ex vivo and in vivo tissues.
  • To compare the accuracy and speed of TCR against conventional reconstruction methods.

Main Methods:

  • A novel temporally constrained reconstruction (TCR) algorithm was developed to generate MRI temperature maps from undersampled k-space data.
  • The TCR algorithm iteratively minimizes a cost function to reconstruct images in real-time.
  • Experiments were conducted on ex vivo porcine tissue (n=8) and in vivo canine muscle tissue (n=3) to evaluate TCR performance at various reduction factors.

Main Results:

  • TCR achieved maximum data reduction factors of 4 (ex vivo) and 3 (in vivo) while maintaining temperature root mean square error (RMSE) below 0.5°C and 1.0°C, respectively.
  • TCR demonstrated significantly lower RMSE compared to sliding window and low-resolution reconstructions (P < 0.05).
  • The algorithm underpredicted thermal dose by 6% (ex vivo) and 28% (in vivo) at achieved reduction factors.

Conclusions:

  • Temporally constrained reconstruction (TCR) is a viable technique for accelerating MRI temperature mapping during thermal ablation.
  • TCR provides accurate temperature monitoring with significant k-space undersampling, outperforming traditional methods.
  • Further optimization is needed to minimize thermal dose underprediction, particularly in in vivo applications.