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Abstract #4646

Feasibility study of 4-dimensional free-breathing dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI for liver quantitative perfusion at 3T on oncology patients

Jing Li1, Yuan Liu1, Peng Sun2, Qing Fu1, and Xin Li1
1Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, 2Philips Healthcare, Wuhan, China

Synopsis

Keywords: Motion Correction, Liver, Perfusion

Motivation: The requirements for multiple breath-holds would cause motion artifacts, which may impair the accurate evaluation of lesion properties in dynamic perfusion scans.

Goal(s): To evaluate the clinical feasibility of free-breathing dynamic liver MR perfusion(FBP) compared with breath-holding dynamic perfusion(BHP) method.

Approach: A case-control study of 58 oncology patients were collected. The image quality, intervolume motion effect and diagnostic confidence were compared between the two groups.

Results: Four-dimensional free-breathing dynamic liver MR perfusion (4D-FBP) could provide comparable image quality but significantly fewer motions than routine method, making 4D-FBP an attractive alternative to existing breath-holding techniques in clinical dynamic liver MR scans.

Impact: Free-breathing dynamic liver MR perfusion provides significantly improved intervolume motion and comparable image quality in comparison to the routine breath-holding method, which may promote the clinical translation of liver quantitative perfusion.

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