Attenuation Correction for Flexible Magnetic Resonance Coils in Combined Magnetic Resonance/Positron Emission Tomography Imaging

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作者
Eldib, Mootaz [1 ]
Bini, Jason [1 ,2 ]
Calcagno, Claudia [1 ]
Robson, Philip M. [1 ]
Mani, Venkatesh [1 ,3 ]
Fayad, Zahi A. [1 ,3 ,4 ,5 ]
机构
[1] Icahn Sch Med Mt Sinai, Translat & Mol Imaging Inst, New York, NY 10029 USA
[2] CUNY City Coll, Dept Biomed Engn, New York, NY 10031 USA
[3] Icahn Sch Med Mt Sinai, Dept Radiol, New York, NY 10029 USA
[4] Icahn Sch Med Mt Sinai, Dept Cardiol, Zena & Michael Weiner Cardiovasc Inst, New York, NY 10029 USA
[5] Icahn Sch Med Mt Sinai, Marie Jose & Henry R Kravis Ctr Cardiovasc Hlth, New York, NY 10029 USA
关键词
magnetic resonance imaging; positron emission tomography; attenuation correction; flexible radio frequency coils; BODY PET/MR SCANNER; INITIAL-EXPERIENCE; SCATTERED DATA; SURFACE COILS; REGISTRATION; IMAGES; MRI; SYSTEM;
D O I
10.1097/RLI.0b013e3182a530f8
中图分类号
R8 [特种医学]; R445 [影像诊断学];
学科分类号
1002 ; 100207 ; 1009 ;
摘要
Introduction Attenuation correction for magnetic resonance (MR) coils is a new challenge that came about with the development of combined MR and positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. This task is difficult because such coils are not directly visible on either PET or MR acquisitions with current combined scanners and are therefore not easily localized in the field of view. This issue becomes more evident when trying to localize flexible MR coils (eg, cardiac or body matrix coil) that change position and shape from patient to patient and from one imaging session to another. In this study, we proposed a novel method to localize and correct for the attenuation and scatter of a flexible MR cardiac coil, using MR fiducial markers placed on the surface of the coil to allow for accurate registration of a template computed tomography (CT)-based attenuation map. Materials and Methods To quantify the attenuation properties of the cardiac coil, a uniform cylindrical water phantom injected with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) was imaged on a sequential MR/PET system with and without the flexible cardiac coil. After establishing the need to correct for the attenuation of the coil, we tested the feasibility of several methods to register a precomputed attenuation map to correct for the attenuation. To accomplish this, MR and CT visible markers were placed on the surface of the cardiac flexible coil. Using only the markers as a driver for registration, the CT image was registered to the reference image through a combination of rigid and deformable registration. The accuracy of several methods was compared for the deformable registration, including B-spline, thin-plate spline, elastic body spline, and volume spline. Finally, we validated our novel approach both in phantom and patient studies. Results The findings from the phantom experiments indicated that the presence of the coil resulted in a 10% reduction in measured 18F-FDG activity when compared with the phantom-only scan. Local underestimation reached 22% in regions of interest close to the coil. Various registration methods were tested, and the volume spline was deemed to be the most accurate, as measured by the Dice similarity metric. The results of our phantom experiments showed that the bias in the 18F-FDG quantification introduced by the presence of the coil could be reduced by using our registration method. An overestimation of only 1.9% of the overall activity for the phantom scan with the coil attenuation map was measured when compared with the baseline phantom scan without coil. A local overestimation of less than 3% was observed in the ROI analysis when using the proposed method to correct for the attenuation of the flexible cardiac coil. Quantitative results from the patient study agreed well with the phantom findings. Conclusions We presented and validated an accurate method to localize and register a CT-based attenuation map to correct for the attenuation and scatter of flexible MR coils. This method may be translated to clinical use to produce quantitatively accurate measurements with the use of flexible MR coils during MR/PET imaging.
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