Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5630747 | NeuroImage | 2017 | 10 Pages |
â¢Combination of sliding-window and GRAPPA allows highly accelerated 3D MRF.â¢High-resolution (1 mm3) whole-brain multi-parameter maps obtained in 7.5-min.â¢Compared to 2D, 3D MRF enables higher SNR for accurate, isotropic resolution maps.
PurposeWhole-brain high-resolution quantitative imaging is extremely encoding intensive, and its rapid and robust acquisition remains a challenge. Here we present a 3D MR fingerprinting (MRF) acquisition with a hybrid sliding-window (SW) and GRAPPA reconstruction strategy to obtain high-resolution T1, T2 and proton density (PD) maps with whole brain coverage in a clinically feasible timeframe.Methods3D MRF data were acquired using a highly under-sampled stack-of-spirals trajectory with a steady-state precession (FISP) sequence. For data reconstruction, kx-ky under-sampling was mitigated using SW combination along the temporal axis. Non-uniform fast Fourier transform (NUFFT) was then applied to create Cartesian k-space data that are fully-sampled in the in-plane direction, and Cartesian GRAPPA was performed to resolve kz under-sampling to create an alias-free SW dataset. T1, T2 and PD maps were then obtained using dictionary matching.ResultsPhantom study demonstrated that the proposed 3D-MRF acquisition/reconstruction method is able to produce quantitative maps that are consistent with conventional quantification techniques. Retrospectively under-sampled in vivo acquisition revealed that SWÂ +Â GRAPPA substantially improves quantification accuracy over the current state-of-the-art accelerated 3D MRF. Prospectively under-sampled in vivo study showed that whole brain T1, T2 and PD maps with 1Â mm3 resolution could be obtained in 7.5Â min.Conclusions3D MRF stack-of-spirals acquisition with hybrid SWÂ +Â GRAPPA reconstruction may provide a feasible approach for rapid, high-resolution quantitative whole-brain imaging.
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