Abstract #3666
            Automated Detection of the Arterial Phase in TRACER Reconstructed Dynamic 3D Contrast Enhanced Liver Imaging
                      Mitchell Anthony Cooper                     1,2                    , Bo Xu                     1                    , 						Shan Hu                     2                    , Silvina Dutruel                     2                    , Martin 						R. Prince                     2                    , Yi Wang                     1                    , and Pascal 						Spincemaille                     2          
            
            1
           
           Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, 
						Ithaca, New York, United States,
           
            2
           
           Radiology, 
						Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, 
						United States
          
            
          Capturing the arterial phase is crucial for the optimal 
						detection and characterization of liver tumors using 
						dynamic contrast enhanced imaging. Recently, TRACER, a 
						method for high temporal liver imaging was proposed 
						which uses a spiral readout in conjunction with a 
						non-linear reconstruction to reconstruct 3D images with 
						a sub-second temporal frame rate. It was demonstrated 
						that this reconstruction increased the likelihood of 
						capturing the arterial phase after bolus injection. 
						However, the reader is now presented with a large number 
						of images Here we adapt a previously proposed algorithm 
						to automatically select the optimal arterial phase from 
						a series of 3D dynamic contrast enhanced hepatic images 
						reconstructed with TRACER
         
				
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