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Abstract #3297

Ultrafast submillimeter model-based NN quantification of whole-brain T1 and T2 using phase-cycled bSSFP

Florian Birk1,2, Klaus Scheffler1,2, and Rahel Heule1,2,3
1Department of High-Field Magnetic Resonance, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, 2Department of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, 3Center for MR Research, University Children's Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland

Synopsis

Keywords: Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence, Model-Based LearningThe bSSFP sequence is intrinsically sensitive to T1 and T2, motion robust, and allows highly efficient data acquisition. Slow convergence in qMRI parameter fitting can potentially be mitigated by machine learning, which benefits greatly from the availability of accurate ground truth data. This work presents an unsupervised model-based NN that incorporates the analytical bSSFP signal equation into the training loop, thus avoiding the need for ground truth relaxometry measurements and enabling instantaneous multi-parametric submillimeter whole-brain mapping of T1 and T2. NN performance was compared to MIRACLE quantitatively for in silico noise corrupted data and qualitatively for in vivo data.

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