Systems and methods for accelerated arterial spin labeling using compressed sensing

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9589345-B2
Application number	US-201514870803-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 30, 2015
Priority date	Apr 20, 2012
Publication date	Mar 7, 2017
Grant date	Mar 7, 2017

Abstract

Systems and methods for accelerated arterial spin labeling (ASL) using compressed sensing are disclosed. In one aspect, in accordance with one example embodiment, a method includes acquiring magnetic resonance data associated with an area of interest of a subject, wherein the area of interest corresponds to one or more physiological activities of the subject. The method also includes performing image reconstruction using temporally constrained compressed sensing reconstruction on at least a portion of the acquired magnetic resonance data, wherein acquiring the magnetic resonance data includes receiving data associated with ASL of the area of interest of the subject.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
acquiring magnetic resonance data associated with an area of interest of a subject, wherein the area of interest corresponds to at least one physiological activity of the subject and the acquiring comprises receiving data associated with arterial spin labeling (ASL) of the area of interest of the subject;
performing image reconstruction, comprising compressed sensing reconstruction, on at least a portion of the acquired magnetic resonance data; and
determining at least one characteristic of the physiological activity in the area of interest of the subject based on the acquired magnetic resonance data.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the at least one characteristic of the physiological activity comprises determining at least one of cerebral blood flow (CBF), cerebral blood volume (CBV), arterial transit time (ATT), and arterial transit delay (ATD) in the area of interest of the subject.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein acquiring the magnetic resonance data comprises spiral sampling with constant-density spiral k-space trajectories.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein acquiring the magnetic resonance data comprises spiral sampling with dual-density spiral k-space trajectories.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the image reconstruction comprises parallel image reconstruction.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the data associated with arterial spin labeling of the area of interest of the subject comprises data obtained using pulsed arterial spin labeling.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the pulsed arterial spin labeling comprises a flow-sensitive alternating recovery (FAIR) technique.

8. The method of claim 6 , wherein the pulsed arterial spin labeling is multi-inversion time (multi-TI) pulsed arterial spin labeling.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the data associated with arterial spin labeling of the area of interest of the subject comprises data obtained using multi-observation time (multi-OT) pseudocontinuous arterial spin labeling (PCASL).

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the image reconstruction is performed using cost-function constraints corresponding to at least one of:
iterative self-consistent parallel imaging reconstruction (SPIRiT);
spatial total variation (TV);
wavelets;
spatial singular value decomposition; and
temporal singular value decomposition.

11. A system, comprising:
a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device;
one or more processors in communication with the MRI device; and
a memory device in communication with the one or more processors and storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to perform functions that comprise:
acquiring magnetic resonance data associated with an area of interest of a subject, wherein the area of interest corresponds to at least one physiological activity of the subject and the acquiring comprises receiving data associated with arterial spin labeling (ASL) of the area of interest of the subject,
performing image reconstruction, comprising compressed sensing reconstruction, on at least a portion of the acquired magnetic resonance data, and
determining at least one characteristic of the physiological activity in the area of interest of the subject based on the acquired magnetic resonance data.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein determining the at least one characteristic of the physiological activity comprises determining at least one of cerebral blood flow (CBF), cerebral blood volume (CBV), arterial transit time (ATT), and arterial transit delay (ATD) in the area of interest of the subject.

13. The system of claim 11 , wherein acquiring the magnetic resonance data comprises spiral sampling with constant-density spiral k-space trajectories.

14. The system of claim 11 , wherein acquiring the magnetic resonance data comprises spiral sampling with dual-density spiral k-space trajectories.

15. The system of claim 11 , wherein the image reconstruction comprises parallel image reconstruction.

16. The system of claim 11 , wherein the data associated with arterial spin labeling of the area of interest of the subject comprises data obtained using pulsed arterial spin labeling.

17. The system of claim 16 , wherein the pulsed arterial spin labeling comprises a flow-sensitive alternating recovery (FAIR) technique.

18. The system of claim 16 , wherein the pulsed arterial spin labeling is multi-inversion time (multi-TI) pulsed arterial spin labeling.

19. The system of claim 11 , wherein the data associated with arterial spin labeling of the area of interest of the subject comprises data obtained using multi-observation time (multi-OT) pseudocontinuous arterial spin labeling (PCASL).

20. The system of claim 11 , wherein the image reconstruction is performed using cost-function constraints corresponding to at least one of:
iterative self-consistent parallel imaging reconstruction (SPIRiT);
spatial total variation (TV);
wavelets;
spatial singular value decomposition; and
temporal singular value decomposition.

21. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause a computer to perform functions comprising:
acquiring magnetic resonance data associated with an area of interest of a subject, wherein the area of interest corresponds to at least one physiological activity of the subject and the acquiring comprises receiving data associated with arterial spin labeling (ASL) of the area of interest of the subject,
performing image reconstruction, comprising compressed sensing reconstruction, on at least a portion of the acquired magnetic resonance data, and
determining at least one characteristic of the physiological activity in the area of interest of the subject based on the acquired magnetic resonance data.

22. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 21 , wherein determining the at least one characteristic of the physiological activity comprises determining at least one of cerebral blood flow (CBF), cerebral blood volume (CBV), arterial transit time (ATT), and arterial transit delay (ATD) in the area of interest of the subject.

23. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 21 , wherein acquiring the magnetic resonance data comprises spiral sampling with constant-density spiral k-space trajectories.

24. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 21 , wherein acquiring the magnetic resonance data comprises spiral sampling with dual-density spiral k- space trajectories.

25. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 21 , wherein the image reconstruction comprises parallel image reconstruction.

26. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 21 , wherein the data associated with arterial spin labeling of the area of interest of the subject comprises data obtained using pulsed arterial spin labeling.

27. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 26 , wherein the pulsed arterial spin labeling comprises a flow-sensitive alternating recovery (FAIR) technique.

28. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 26 , wherein the pulsed arterial spin labeling is multi-inversion time (multi-TI) pulsed arterial spin labeling.

29. The non-transitory computer-readable st

Assignees

• Univ Virginia Patent Foundation

Inventors

• Zhao Li
• Chen Xiao
• Fielden Samuel W
• Epstein Frederick H
• Mugler Iii John P
• Nicolas-Jilwan Manal
• Wintermark Max
• Meyer Craig H

Classifications

• G01R33/56366 Primary

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• G06T7/0012 Primary

  Biomedical image inspection · CPC title

• G06T12/10

  Image preprocessing, e.g. calibration, positioning of sources or scatter correction · CPC title

• G06K9/6232

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06T2211/412

  Dynamic · CPC title