Jessica AM Bastiaansen1, Jerome Yerly1,2, Jean-Baptiste Ledoux2, Ruud B van Heeswijk1,2, Davide Piccini3, and Matthias Stuber1,2
1Department of Radiology, University hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2Center for Biomedical Imaging, Lausanne, Switzerland, 3Advanced Clinical Imaging Technology, Siemens Healthcare, Lausanne, Switzerland
Pancreatic MRI is commonly performed during breath-held
or navigator-gated acquisitions. The long breath-holds needed for high spatial
resolution are not always feasible in patients and residual respiratory motion
may still occur. Additionally, in some implementations, the navigator leads to
a local signal void that may obscure parts of the anatomy of interest. Here we used
a free-breathing self-navigated 3D radial gradient-recalled-echo (GRE) imaging
sequence, and compared the 1D motion correction as performed on the scanner
versus a motion-resolved 4D sparse iterative reconstruction. We
show that non-contrast enhanced pancreatic MRI can be performed at 3T during
free-breathing, while motion-resolved sparse reconstruction can efficiently
minimize the adverse effects of respiratory motion.
