An accelerated PETALUTE MRI sequence for in vivo quantification of sodium content in human articular cartilage at 3T

Objective: In this work, we evaluate the sodium magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) capabilities of a three-dimensional (3D) dual-echo ultrashort echo time (UTE) sequence with a novel rosette petal trajectory (PETALUTE), in comparison to the 3D density-adapted (DA) radial spokes UTE sequence in human a...

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Main Authors: Villarreal, CX, Shen, X, Alhulail, AA, Buffo, NM, Zhou, X, Pogue, E, Özen, AC, Chiew, M, Sawiak, S, Emir, U, Chan, DD
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Springer 2024
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author Villarreal, CX
Shen, X
Alhulail, AA
Buffo, NM
Zhou, X
Pogue, E
Özen, AC
Chiew, M
Sawiak, S
Emir, U
Chan, DD
author_facet Villarreal, CX
Shen, X
Alhulail, AA
Buffo, NM
Zhou, X
Pogue, E
Özen, AC
Chiew, M
Sawiak, S
Emir, U
Chan, DD
author_sort Villarreal, CX
collection OXFORD
description Objective: In this work, we evaluate the sodium magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) capabilities of a three-dimensional (3D) dual-echo ultrashort echo time (UTE) sequence with a novel rosette petal trajectory (PETALUTE), in comparison to the 3D density-adapted (DA) radial spokes UTE sequence in human articular cartilage in the knee. Materials and methods: We scanned five healthy subjects using a 3D dual-echo PETALUTE acquisition and two comparable implementations of 3D DA-radial spokes acquisitions, one matching the number of k-space projections (Radial – Matched Spokes) and the other matching the total number of samples (Radial – Matched Samples) acquired in k-space. Results: The PETALUTE acquisition enabled equivalent sodium quantification in articular cartilage volumes of interest (168.8 ± 29.9 mM, mean ± standard deviation) to those derived from the 3D radial acquisitions (171.62 ± 28.7 mM and 149.8 ± 22.2 mM, respectively). We achieved a 41% shorter scan time of 2:06 for 3D PETALUTE, compared to 3:36 for 3D radial acquisitions. We also evaluated the feasibility of further acceleration of the PETALUTE sequence through retrospective compressed sensing with 2 × and 4 × acceleration of the first echo and showed structural similarity of 0.89 ± 0.03 and 0.87 ± 0.03 when compared to non-retrospectively accelerated reconstruction. Conclusion: We demonstrate improved scan time with equivalent performance using a 3D dual-echo PETALUTE sequence compared to the 3D DA-radial sequence for sodium MRI of articular cartilage.
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spelling oxford-uuid:bcd6c8ba-de67-4087-bf7c-0ad0cb90a66c2025-01-27T20:07:24ZAn accelerated PETALUTE MRI sequence for in vivo quantification of sodium content in human articular cartilage at 3TJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:bcd6c8ba-de67-4087-bf7c-0ad0cb90a66cEnglishJisc Publications RouterSpringer2024Villarreal, CXShen, XAlhulail, AABuffo, NMZhou, XPogue, EÖzen, ACChiew, MSawiak, SEmir, UChan, DDObjective: In this work, we evaluate the sodium magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) capabilities of a three-dimensional (3D) dual-echo ultrashort echo time (UTE) sequence with a novel rosette petal trajectory (PETALUTE), in comparison to the 3D density-adapted (DA) radial spokes UTE sequence in human articular cartilage in the knee. Materials and methods: We scanned five healthy subjects using a 3D dual-echo PETALUTE acquisition and two comparable implementations of 3D DA-radial spokes acquisitions, one matching the number of k-space projections (Radial – Matched Spokes) and the other matching the total number of samples (Radial – Matched Samples) acquired in k-space. Results: The PETALUTE acquisition enabled equivalent sodium quantification in articular cartilage volumes of interest (168.8 ± 29.9 mM, mean ± standard deviation) to those derived from the 3D radial acquisitions (171.62 ± 28.7 mM and 149.8 ± 22.2 mM, respectively). We achieved a 41% shorter scan time of 2:06 for 3D PETALUTE, compared to 3:36 for 3D radial acquisitions. We also evaluated the feasibility of further acceleration of the PETALUTE sequence through retrospective compressed sensing with 2 × and 4 × acceleration of the first echo and showed structural similarity of 0.89 ± 0.03 and 0.87 ± 0.03 when compared to non-retrospectively accelerated reconstruction. Conclusion: We demonstrate improved scan time with equivalent performance using a 3D dual-echo PETALUTE sequence compared to the 3D DA-radial sequence for sodium MRI of articular cartilage.
spellingShingle Villarreal, CX
Shen, X
Alhulail, AA
Buffo, NM
Zhou, X
Pogue, E
Özen, AC
Chiew, M
Sawiak, S
Emir, U
Chan, DD
An accelerated PETALUTE MRI sequence for in vivo quantification of sodium content in human articular cartilage at 3T
title An accelerated PETALUTE MRI sequence for in vivo quantification of sodium content in human articular cartilage at 3T
title_full An accelerated PETALUTE MRI sequence for in vivo quantification of sodium content in human articular cartilage at 3T
title_fullStr An accelerated PETALUTE MRI sequence for in vivo quantification of sodium content in human articular cartilage at 3T
title_full_unstemmed An accelerated PETALUTE MRI sequence for in vivo quantification of sodium content in human articular cartilage at 3T
title_short An accelerated PETALUTE MRI sequence for in vivo quantification of sodium content in human articular cartilage at 3T
title_sort accelerated petalute mri sequence for in vivo quantification of sodium content in human articular cartilage at 3t
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