title: Dynamic magnetic resonance imaging paragraph sign with radial scanning: a post-acquisition paragraph sign keyhole approach.
abstract: A method - PA-keyhole - for 2D/3D dynamic magnetic resonance imaging with radial scanning is proposed. PA-keyhole exploits the inherent strong oversampling in the center of k-space, which contains crucial temporal information regarding contrast evolution. The method is based on: (1). a rearrangement of the temporal order of 2D/3D isotropic distributions of trajectories during the scan into subdistributions according to the desired time resolution, (2). a new post-acquisition keyhole approach based on the replacement of the central disk/sphere in k-space using data solely from a subdistribution, and (3). reconstruction of 2D/3D dynamic (time-resolved) images using 2D/3D-gridding with Pipe's approach to the sampling density compensation and 2D/3D-IFFT. The scan time is not increased with respect to a conventional 2D/3D radial scan of the same spatial resolution; in addition, one benefits from the dynamic information. The abilities of PA-keyhole and the sliding window techniques to restore simulated dynamic contrast changes are compared. Results are shown both for 2D and 3D dynamic imaging using experimental data. An application to in-vivo ventilation of rat lungs using hyperpolarized helium is demonstrated.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de RMN, CNRS UMR 5012, Université Lyon I-CPE, 3 Rue Victor Grignard, 69616 Villeurbanne, France.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lethmate
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ratiney
authors.forename: F T A W
authors.initials: FT
authors.lastname: Wajer
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Crémillieux
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: van Ormondt
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Graveron-Demilly
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000379:methods*; D008168:Lung / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology; D019028:Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D012123:Pulmonary Ventilation / Q000502:physiology; D011786:Quality Control; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted