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低场MRI的外部动态InTerference估计和去除(EDITER)

External Dynamic InTerference Estimation and Removal (EDITER) for low field MRI

Sai Abitha Srinivas, Stephen F Cauley, Jason P Stockmann, Charlotte R Sappo, Christopher E Vaughn, Lawrence L Wald, William A Grissom, Clarissa Z Cooley

摘要:

目的:床旁MRI需要在通常用于阻挡图像退化电磁干扰(EMI)的法拉第屏蔽室之外进行操作。为了解决这个问题,我们引入了EDITER方法,一种基于外部传感器的动态EMI估计和去除方法,可以追溯性地去除随时间变化的外部干扰源。理论与方法:该方法在图像数据采集期间与主MR线圈同时从多个EMI探测器(调谐接收线圈和放置在身体上的电极)采集数据。我们动态地计算脉冲响应函数,该脉冲响应函数将来自探测器的数据映射到kspace数据中的伪影,然后从MR数据中去除变换后的探测到的EMI。EDITER算法的性能在受控EMI环境中的80 mT便携式脑MRI中的体模和体内成像实验中进行了评估,并在不受控EMI设置中使用开放式47.5 mT MRI扫描仪进行了评估。结果如下:在受控设置中,EDITER技术的有效性被证明是针对特定类型的引入EMI源,结构化EMI减少高达97%,宽带EMI减少高达76%。在不受控制的电磁干扰实验中,我们证明了37%的电磁干扰减少与一个单一的拾波线圈和89%与一个单一的电极和高达99%与两者。结论:EDITER技术是一种灵活而稳健的方法,可在最小被动屏蔽的情况下提高便携式MRI系统的图像质量。这可以减少MRI对屏蔽室的依赖,并允许使用专门的紧凑型POC扫描仪进行真正的便携式MRI

英文摘要:

Purpose: Point-of-care MRI requires operation outside of a faraday shielded room normally used to block image-degrading electromagnetic Interference (EMI). To address this, we introduce the EDITER method, an external sensor based dynamic EMI estimation and removal method to retrospectively remove time-varying external interference sources. Theory and Methods: The method acquires data from multiple EMI detectors (tuned receive coils and electrodes placed on the body) simultaneous with the primary MR coil during image data acquisition. We dynamically calculate impulse response functions that map the data from the detectors to the artifacts in the kspace data, then remove the transformed detected EMI from the MR data. Performance of the EDITER algorithm was assessed in phantom and in vivo imaging experiments in an 80mT portable brain MRI in a controlled EMI environment and with an open 47.5mT MRI scanner in an uncontrolled EMI setting. Results: In the controlled setting, the effectiveness of the EDITER technique was demonstrated for specific types of introduced EMI sources with up to a 97% reduction of structured EMI and up to 76% reduction of broadband EMI. In the uncontrolled EMI experiments, we demonstrate EMI reductions of 37% with a single pickup coil and 89% with a single electrode and up to 99% with both. Conclusion: The EDITER technique is a flexible and robust method to improve image quality in portable MRI systems with minimal passive shielding. This could reduce the reliance of MRI on shielded rooms and allow for truly portable MRI with specialized compact POC scanners

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