Abstract #0096

Model-based Reconstruction for Real-Time Phase-Contrast Flow MRI - Improved Spatiotemporal Accuracy

Zhengguo Tan¹, Volkert Roeloffs¹, Dirk Voit¹, Arun Joseph¹, Markus Untenberger¹, Klaus-Dietmar Merboldt¹, and Jens Frahm¹

¹Biomedizinische NMR Forschungs GmbH, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany

The proposed model-based reconstruction technique jointly computes a magnitude image, a phase-contrast map, and a set of coil sensitivities from every pair of flow-compensated and flow-encoded datasets obtained by highly undersampled radial FLASH. Real-time acquisitions with 5 and 7 radial spokes per image resulted in 25.6 and 35.7 ms measuring time per phase-contrast map, respectively. It yields quantitatively accurate phase-contrast maps with improved spatial acuity, reduced phase noise, reduced partial volume effects, and reduced streaking artifacts.

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