The noise navigator: a surrogate for respiratory-correlated 4D-MRI for motion characterization in radiotherapy.

Abstract:

:Respiratory-correlated 4D-MRI can characterize respiratory-induced motion of tumors and organs-at-risk for radiotherapy treatment planning and is a necessity for image guidance of moving tumors treated on an MRI-linac. Essential for 4D-MRI generation is a robust respiratory surrogate signal. We investigated the feasibility of the noise navigator as respiratory surrogate signal for 4D-MRI generation. The noise navigator is based on the respiratory-induced modulation of the thermal noise variance measured by the receive coils during MR acquisition and thus is inherently present and synchronized with MRI data acquisition. Additionally, the noise navigator can be combined with any rectilinear readout strategy (e.g. radial and cartesian) and is independent of MR image contrast and imaging orientation. For radiotherapy applications, the noise navigator provides a robust respiratory signal for patients scanned with an elevated coil setup. This is particularly attractive for widely used cartesian sequences where currently a non-interfering self-navigation means is lacking for MRI-based simulation and MRI-guided radiotherapy. The feasibility of 4D-MRI generation with the noise navigator as respiratory surrogate signal was demonstrated for both cartesian and radial readout strategies in radiotherapy setup on four healthy volunteers and two radiotherapy patients on a dedicated 1.5 T MRI scanner and two radiotherapy patients on a 1.5 T MRI-linac system. Moreover, the respiratory-correlated 4D-MR images showed liver motion comparable to a reference 2D cine MRI series for the volunteers. For 2D cartesian cine MRI acquisitions, both the noise navigator and respiratory bellows were benchmarked against an image navigator. Respiratory phase detection based on the noise navigator agreed 1.4 times better with the image navigator than the respiratory bellows did. For a 3D Stack-of-Stars acquisitions, the noise navigator was compared to radial self-navigation and a 1.7 times higher respiratory phase detection agreement was observed than for the respiratory bellows compared to radial self-navigation.

journal_name

Phys Med Biol

authors

Navest RJM,Mandija S,Bruijnen T,Stemkens B,Tijssen RHN,Andreychenko A,Lagendijk JJW,van den Berg CAT

doi

10.1088/1361-6560/ab5c62

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-01-13 00:00:00

pages

01NT02

issue

1

eissn

0031-9155

issn

1361-6560

journal_volume

65

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