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Amir Heydari¹, Abbas Ahmadi¹, Tae Hyung Kim²

¹Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

|August 16, 2024

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Accelerated quantitative MRI mapping is now faster and more accurate. A new Joint MAPLE technique significantly reduces scan times for tissue parameter quantification, improving diagnostic capabilities.

Keywords:

parameter mapping quantitative MRI scan-specific deep learning self-supervised networks

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Area of Science:

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Background:

Quantitative MRI (qMRI) offers powerful diagnostic insights but is limited by long scan times.
Accelerated techniques using parallel imaging, modeling, and deep learning show promise but face limitations in speed and map quality.
Joint MAPLE is a state-of-the-art technique for multi-parametric mapping but has lengthy reconstruction times.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a significantly faster version of the Joint MAPLE technique for quantitative MRI.
To maintain or improve the mapping performance of Joint MAPLE while drastically reducing reconstruction time.
To enable practical, high-resolution, scan-specific quantitative MRI parameter mapping.

Main Methods:

Developed a faster Joint MAPLE framework by synergistically combining coil compression, random slice selection, parameter-specific learning rates, and transfer learning.
Applied the framework to multi-echo, multi-flip angle (MEMFA) datasets for joint mapping of T1, proton density, and field inhomogeneity.
Evaluated reconstruction time reduction and mapping accuracy compared to original Joint MAPLE and other state-of-the-art methods.

Main Results:

Achieved up to a 700-fold speed-up in reconstruction time compared to the original Joint MAPLE.
Reduced whole-brain MEMFA dataset processing time from ~260 hours to an average of 21 minutes.
Demonstrated approximately 2-fold improvement in mapping performance (lower root mean squared error) over standard and state-of-the-art techniques.

Conclusions:

The proposed framework dramatically accelerates Joint MAPLE reconstruction for quantitative MRI parameter mapping.
This advancement makes high-quality, scan-specific quantitative MRI more feasible for routine clinical and research applications.
The technique offers superior mapping accuracy and efficiency, overcoming previous adoption barriers for quantitative MRI.