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  • Radiotherapy Physics
  • Image Processing

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  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) guided radiotherapy enables intrafraction anatomy tracking.
  • High-fidelity deformable image registration is crucial for non-rigid anatomy tracking.
  • Current MRI acquisition times limit real-time adaptive radiotherapy due to long scan durations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of reduced image resolution on motion estimation quality in MRI.
  • To determine if spatially undersampled MRI data can yield comparable motion estimations for radiotherapy.
  • To assess the potential for accelerating MRI acquisition without significant loss of motion tracking accuracy.

Main Methods:

  • Exemplary 4D abdominal MRI datasets were gradually downsampled.
  • Spatiotemporal deformations were extracted using consistent motion estimation across all downsampled datasets.
  • Errors between original and downsampled data deformation fields were evaluated against ground-truth.

Main Results:

  • Deformations estimated from downsampled MRI data showed high similarity to those from original resolution data.
  • Deformation fields were recovered effectively up to a downsampling factor of 2 (voxel size from 2.5 mm to 5 mm).
  • This suggests acceptable loss of motion estimation quality with reduced resolution.

Conclusions:

  • Reducing MRI resolution is a viable strategy to accelerate image acquisition for radiotherapy.
  • Faster MRI scans increase imaging speed approximately fourfold with acceptable motion estimation quality.
  • This acceleration supports the development of real-time adaptive radiotherapy.