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Reduced distortion artifact whole brain CBF mapping using blip-reversed non-segmented 3D echo planar imaging with pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling.

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PURPOSE:To implement and evaluate interleaved blip-up, blip-down, non-segmented 3D echo planar imaging (EPI) with pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling (pCASL) and post-processing for reduced susceptibility artifact cerebral blood flow (CBF) maps. MATERIALS AND METHODS:3D EPI non-segmented acquisition with a pCASL labeling sequence was modified to include alternating k-space coverage along phase encoding direction (referred to as "blip-reversed") for alternating dynamic acquisitions of control and label pairs. Eight volunteers were imaged on a 3T scanner. Images were corrected for distortion using spatial shifting transformation of the underlying field map. CBF maps were calculated and compared with maps obtained without blip reversal using matching gray matter (GM) images from a high resolution 3D scan. Additional benefit of using the correction for alternating blip-up and blip-down acquisitions was assessed by comparing to corrected blip-up only and corrected blip-down only CBF maps. Matched Student t-test of overlapping voxels for the eight volunteers was done to ascertain statistical improvement in distortion. RESULTS:Mean CBF value in GM for the eight volunteers from distortion corrected CBF maps was 50.8±9.9ml/min/100 gm tissue. Corrected CBF maps had 6.3% and 4.1% more voxels in GM when compared with uncorrected blip up (BU) and blip down (BD) images, respectively. Student t-test showed significant reduction in distortion when compared with blip-up images and blip-down images (p<0.001). When compared with corrected BU and corrected BD only CBF maps, BU and BD corrected maps had 2.3% and 1% more voxels (p=0.006 and 0.04, respectively). CONCLUSION:Pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling with non-segmented 3D EPI acquisition using alternating blip-reversed k-space traversal and distortion correction provided significantly better matching GM CBF maps. In addition, employing alternating blip-reversed acquisitions during pCASL acquisition resulted in statistically significant improvement over corrected blip-up and blip-down CBF maps.

journal_name

Magn Reson Imaging

journal_title

Magnetic resonance imaging

authors

Gai ND,Chou YY,Pham D,Butman JA

doi

10.1016/j.mri.2017.08.011

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2017-12-01 00:00:00

pages

119-124

eissn

0730-725X

issn

1873-5894

pii

S0730-725X(17)30168-6

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pub_type

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Reduced distortion artifact whole brain CBF mapping using blip-reversed non-segmented 3D echo planar imaging with pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling.