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Area of Science:

  • Medical Imaging
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
  • Biomedical Engineering

Background:

  • Abdominal MRI scans often require breath-holding to maintain image quality.
  • Breath-holding can be difficult for patients, particularly children, leading to motion artifacts.
  • Motion artifacts degrade diagnostic accuracy in abdominal MRI.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the efficacy of Free Induction Decay (FID) navigators for real-time prospective motion correction in abdominal MRI.
  • To assess if FID navigators can measure and correct for respiratory motion during MRI scans.
  • To improve image quality in abdominal MRI by mitigating motion-induced artifacts.

Main Methods:

  • FID navigators were integrated into a 3D radial sequence with stack-of-stars sampling.
  • A motion model was created using a calibration scan to estimate kidney displacement from FID signals.
  • Prospective motion correction was applied in real-time during deep and continuous deep breathing scans in 6 healthy volunteers.

Main Results:

  • The proposed FID navigator technique accurately tracked and corrected kidney motion, improving Dice scores between inhale/exhale states from 0.93 to 0.96.
  • Kidney depiction was enhanced in combined images, showing improved clarity.
  • High-quality images were reconstructed using fewer spokes compared to retrospective motion correction techniques.

Conclusions:

  • The developed technique effectively reduces blurriness and motion artifacts in kidney imaging.
  • Prospective motion correction using FID navigators improves image quality by correcting kidney position both in-plane and through-slice.
  • This method offers a promising solution for motion-challenged patients in abdominal MRI.