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Time domain principal component analysis for rapid, real‐time 2D MRI reconstruction from undersampled data
Purpose A rapid real‐time 2D accelerated method was developed for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using principal component analysis (PCA) in the temporal domain. This method employs a moving window of previous dynamic frames to reconstruct the current, real‐time frame within this window. This tech...
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| Published in: | Medical physics (Lancaster) 2021-11, Vol.48 (11), p.6724-6739 |
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| Main Authors: | , , , , , , |
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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A rapid real‐time 2D accelerated method was developed for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using principal component analysis (PCA) in the temporal domain. This method employs a moving window of previous dynamic frames to reconstruct the current, real‐time frame within this window. This technique could be particularly useful in real‐time tracking applications such as in MR‐guided radiotherapy, where low latency real‐time reconstructions are essential.
Methods
The method was tested retrospectively on 15 fully‐sampled data sets of lung patient data acquired on a 3T Philips Achieva system. High frequency data are incoherently undersampled, while the central low‐frequency data are always acquired to characterize the temporal fluctuations through PCA. The undersampling pattern is derived in such a way that all of k‐space is acquired within a pre‐determined number of frames. The missing data in the current frame are then filled in by fitting the temporal characterizations to the acquired undersampled data, using a pre‐determined number of PCs. A subset of six patients was used to test the contour ability of the images. Various accelerations between 3x and 8x were tested along with the optimal number of PCs for fitting. A comparison was also performed with previous work from our group proposed by Dietz et al. as well as with a standard low resolution acquisition. In order to determine how the method would perform at lower signal to noise ratio (SNR), noise levels of 2×, 4×, and 6× were added to the 3T data. Metrics such as normalised mean square error and Dice coefficient were used to measure the reconstruction image quality and contour ability.
Results
The proposed method demonstrated good temporal robustness as consistent metrics were detected for the duration of the imaging session. It was found that the optimal number of PCs for temporal fitting was dependent on the acceleration rate. For the data tested, five PCs were found to be optimal at the acceleration rates of 3× and 4×. This number decreases to three at accelerations of 5× and 6× and further decreases to two at an acceleration rate of 8×, likely due to greater instability with fewer acquired data points. The use of too many PCs for fitting increased the chances of noisy reconstruction which affected contourability.
Conclusions
The proposed 2D real‐time MR acceleration method demonstrated greater robustness in the metrics over time when compared with previous real‐time PCA methods using metrics |
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| ISSN: | 0094-2405 2473-4209 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/mp.15238 |