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Abstract #0253

Robust Volumetric Diffusion-Weighted MRSI via Time-Resolved Phase Reconstruction and Correction

Zepeng Wang1,2, Bradley P. Sutton1,2,3, and Fan Lam1,2,3
1Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, 2Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, 3Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States

Synopsis

Keywords: Spectroscopy, Spectroscopy, Diffusion, Quantitative Imaging

Motivation: To address the long-standing phase correction challenge and enhance the robustness for diffusion-weighted MRSI.

Goal(s): To correct the significant phase variations due to macroscopic and microscopic motions in in vivo diffusion-weighted MRSI acquisition.

Approach: We developed a novel fast diffusion-weighted MRSI sequence integrating time-resolved, sparsely sampled, volumetric phase navigators, a subspace-based phase image reconstruction, and a sensitivity-encoded phase-corrected reconstruction. The corrected diffusion-weighted MRSI data were processed by state-of-the-art subspace-based spatiospectral processing methods.

Results: Improved data quality, diffusion-weighted spatiospectral reconstruction and metabolite-specific diffusion parameter estimation achieved by the proposed method are demonstrated using in vivo data.

Impact: A novel integrative acquisition and reconstruction solution for robust, phase-corrected 3D in vivo diffusion-weighted MRSI was presented, an important step towards developing diffusion-weighted MRSI for its translation to quantitative, molecule-specific microstructural imaging.

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