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Abstract #4177

Data-consistent super resolution for 3D whole-heart MRI using a motion-corrected deep-learning reconstruction framework

Andrew Phair1, Anastasia Fotaki1, Lina Felsner1, Thomas J. Fletcher1, René M. Botnar1,2,3,4,5, and Claudia Prieto1,3,4
1School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London, United Kingdom, 2Institute for Biological and Medical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 3School of Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 4Millennium Institute for Intelligent Healthcare Engineering, Santiago, Chile, 5Institute for Advanced Study, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Synopsis

Keywords: Image Reconstruction, Cardiovascular

Motivation: Whole-heart CMR with high isotropic spatial resolution involves long and unpredictable scan times.

Goal(s): To propose and validate a super-resolution motion-corrected reconstruction framework to enable accelerated high-resolution whole-heart CMR from lower-resolution acquisitions.

Approach: Low resolution was treated as a k-space down-sampling problem, enabling the adaptation of an end-to-end motion-corrected iterative deep-learning network reconstruction, previously demonstrated for undersampled whole-heart CMRA.

Results: High-resolution whole-heart images (1.5×1.5×1.5 mm3) were obtained from prospective low-resolution data (1.5×6×6 mm3) using the proposed Super-MoCo-MoDL framework, with comparable image quality to a high-resolution acquisition. Scan times decreased from ~3.2 to ~1.2 minutes and reconstruction times were clinically feasible, at ~30 seconds.

Impact: The proposed Super-MoCo-MoDL framework enables data-consistent 3D whole-heart image reconstruction at high isotropic resolution from lower-resolution anisotropic scans. It has the potential to either accelerate whole-heart CMR, increase the feasibility of high-resolution clinical scanning, or a combination of the two.

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