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  • Title: Real-time, single breath-hold, multi-slice, 2D cine radial MR image reconstruction using sc-GROG k-t ESPIRiT.
    Author: Aslam I, Crowe LA, Kassai M, Qazi SA, Omer H, Vallée JP.
    Journal: Biomed Phys Eng Express; 2022 Nov 11; 8(6):. PubMed ID: 36322961.
    Abstract:
    Background:Multi-slice, multiple breath-hold ECG-gated 2D cine MRI is a standard technique for evaluating heart function and restricted to one or two images per breath-hold. Therefore, the standard cine MRI requires long scan time and can result in slice-misalignments because of various breath-hold locations in the multiple acquisitions.Methods:This work proposes the sc-GROG based k-t ESPIRiT with Total Variation (TV) constraint (sc-GROG k-t ESPIRiT) to reconstruct unaliased cardiac real-time cine MR images from highly accelerated whole heart multi-slice, single breath-hold, real-time 2D cine radial data acquired using the balanced steady-state free precession (trueFISP) sequence in 8 patients. The proposed method quality is assessed via Artifact Power (AP), Root-Mean Square Error (RMSE), Structure Similarity Index (SSIM), Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR), blood-pool to myocardial Contrast-to-Noise-Ratio (CNR), Signal-to-Noise-Ratio (SNR) and spatial-temporal intensity plots through the blood-myocardium boundary. The proposed method quantitative results are compared with the NUFFT based k-t ESPIRiT with Total Variation (TV) constraint (NUFFT k-t ESPIRiT) approach. Furthermore, clinical analysis and function quantification are assessed by Bland-Altman (BA) analyses.Results:As supported by the visual assessment and evaluation parameters, the reconstruction results of the sc-GROG k-t ESPIRiT approach provide an average 21%, 12%, 1% and 47% improvement in AP, RMSE, SSIM and PSNR, respectively in comparison to the NUFFT k-t ESPIRiT approach. Furthermore, the proposed method gives on average 45% and 58% improved blood-pool to myocardial CNR and SNR than the NUFFT k-t ESPIRiT approach. Also, from the BA plot, the proposed method gives better left ventricular and right ventricular function measurements as compared to the NUFFT k-t ESPIRiT scheme.Conclusions:The sc-GROG k-t ESPIRiT (Proposed Method) improves the spatio-temporal quality of the whole heart multi-slice, single breath-hold, real-time 2D cine radial MR and semi-automated analysis using standard clinical software, as compared to the NUFFT k-t ESPIRiT approach.
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