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Linda Knutsson

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Dynamic contrast-enhanced QSM for perfusion imaging : a systematic comparison of ΔR2*- and QSM-based contrast agent concentration time curves in blood and tissue

Författare

  • Emelie Lind
  • Linda Knutsson
  • Freddy Ståhlberg
  • Ronnie Wirestam

Summary, in English

OBJECTIVE: In dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI (DSC-MRI), an arterial input function (AIF) is required to quantify perfusion. However, estimation of the concentration of contrast agent (CA) from magnitude MRI signal data is challenging. A reasonable alternative would be to quantify CA concentration using quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM), as the CA alters the magnetic susceptibility in proportion to its concentration.

MATERIAL AND METHODS: AIFs with reasonable appearance, selected on the basis of conventional criteria related to timing, shape, and peak concentration, were registered from both ΔR2* and QSM images and mutually compared by visual inspection. Both ΔR2*- and QSM-based AIFs were used for perfusion calculations based on tissue concentration data from ΔR2*as well as QSM images.

RESULTS: AIFs based on ΔR2* and QSM data showed very similar shapes and the estimated cerebral blood flow values and mean transit times were similar. Analysis of corresponding ΔR2* versus QSM-based concentration estimates yielded a transverse relaxivity estimate of 89 s-1 mM-1, for voxels identified as useful AIF candidate in ΔR2* images according to the conventional criteria.

DISCUSSION: Interestingly, arterial concentration time curves based on ΔR2* versus QSM data, for a standard DSC-MRI experiment, were generally very similar in shape, and the relaxivity obtained in voxels representing blood was similar to tissue relaxivity obtained in previous studies.

Avdelning/ar

  • MR Physics
  • Medicinsk strålningsfysik, Lund
  • LUCC: Lunds universitets cancercentrum
  • Diagnostisk radiologi, Lund
  • MultiPark: Multidisciplinary research focused on Parkinson´s disease

Publiceringsår

2020-10

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

663-676

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics, Biology, and Medicine

Volym

33

Issue

5

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Springer

Ämne

  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging
  • Other Physics Topics

Status

Published

Projekt

  • Optimisation and Validation of Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast MRI

Forskningsgrupp

  • MR Physics

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1352-8661