
Ronnie Wirestam
Professor

A linear mixed perfusion model for tissue partial volume correction of perfusion estimates in dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI: : Impact on absolute quantification, repeatability, and agreement with pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling
Författare
Summary, in English
PURPOSE: The partial volume effect (PVE) is an important source of bias in brain perfusion measurements. The impact of tissue PVEs in perfusion measurements with dynamic susceptibility contrast MRI (DSC-MRI) has not yet been well established. The purpose of this study was to suggest a partial volume correction (PVC) approach for DSC-MRI and to study how PVC affects DSC-MRI perfusion results.
METHODS: A linear mixed perfusion model for DSC-MRI was derived and evaluated by way of simulations. Twenty healthy volunteers were scanned twice, including DSC-MRI, arterial spin labeling (ASL), and partial volume measurements. Two different algorithms for PVC were employed and assessed.
RESULTS: Simulations showed that the derived model had a tendency to overestimate perfusion values in voxels with high fractions of cerebrospinal fluid. PVC reduced the tissue volume dependence of DSC-MRI perfusion values from 44.4% to 4.2% in gray matter and from 55.3% to 14.2% in white matter. One PVC method significantly improved the voxel-wise repeatability, but PVC did not improve the spatial agreement between DSC-MRI and ASL perfusion maps.
CONCLUSION: Significant PVEs were found for DSC-MRI perfusion estimates, and PVC successfully reduced those effects. The findings suggest that PVC might be an important consideration for DSC-MRI applications. Magn Reson Med, 2016. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Avdelning/ar
- Medicinsk strålningsfysik, Lund
- Diagnostisk radiologi, Lund
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Publiceringsår
2017
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
2203-2214
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
Volym
77
Issue
6
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Ämne
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging
- Other Physics Topics
Aktiv
Published
Projekt
- Optimisation and Validation of Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast MRI
- MRI brain perfusion quantification at 3 tesla using arterial spin labeling
Forskningsgrupp
- MR Physics
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1522-2594