Pharmacokinetic Analysis of Enhancement-Constrained Acceleration (ECA) reconstruction-based high temporal resolution breast DCE-MRI

The high spatial and temporal resolution of dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) can improve the diagnostic accuracy of breast cancer screening in patients who have dense breasts or are at high risk of breast cancer. However, the spatiotemporal resolution of DCE-MRI is limited by technical issues in clinical practice. Our earlier work demonstrated the use of image reconstruction with enhancement-constrained acceleration (ECA) to increase temporal resolution. ECA exploits the correlation in k-space between successive image acquisitions. Because of this correlation, and due to the very sparse enhancement at early times after contrast media injection, we can reconstruct images from highly under-sampled k-space data. Our previous results showed that ECA reconstruction at 0.25 seconds per image (4 Hz) can estimate bolus arrival time (BAT) and initial enhancement slope (iSlope) more accurately than a standard inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) when k-space data is sampled following a Cartesian based sampling trajectory with adequate signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). In this follow-up study, we investigated the effect of different Cartesian based sampling trajectories, SNRs and acceleration rates on the performance of ECA reconstruction in estimating contrast media kinetics in lesions (BAT, iSlope and Ktrans) and in arteries (Peak signal intensity of first pass, time to peak, and BAT). We further validated ECA reconstruction with a flow phantom experiment. Our results show that ECA reconstruction of k-space data acquired with ‘Under-sampling with Repeated Advancing Phase’ (UnWRAP) trajectories with an acceleration factor of 14, and temporal resolution of 0.5 s/image and high SNR (SNR ≥ 30 dB, noise standard deviation (std) < 3%) ensures minor errors (5% or 1 s error) in lesion kinetics. Medium SNR (SNR ≥ 20 dB, noise std ≤ 10%) was needed to accurately measure arterial enhancement kinetics. Our results also suggest that accelerated temporal resolution with ECA with 0.5 s/image is practical.

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