2021
Free‐breathing 3D cardiac T1 mapping with transmit B1 correction at 3T
Han P, Marin T, Djebra Y, Landes V, Zhuo Y, Fakhri G, Ma C. Free‐breathing 3D cardiac T1 mapping with transmit B1 correction at 3T. Magnetic Resonance In Medicine 2021, 87: 1832-1845. PMID: 34812547, PMCID: PMC8810588, DOI: 10.1002/mrm.29097.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsFlip-angle estimationCardiac T<sub>1</sub> mappingGradient echo readoutThrough-plane spatial resolutionImaging timePractical imaging timesFree breathingPhantom studyB1 correctionAccelerated imagingIn-planeT)-spaceMyocardial T<sub>1</sub> valuesSubspace-based methodsSpatial resolutionImaging experimentsAcquisition schemeT)-space dataSubject-specific timeCorrectionModified Look-Locker inversion recoveryLook-Locker inversion recoveryTime of data acquisitionAverage imaging timeInversion-recovery sequence
2019
Body motion detection and correction in cardiac PET: Phantom and human studies
Sun T, Petibon Y, Han P, Ma C, Kim S, Alpert N, Fakhri G, Ouyang J. Body motion detection and correction in cardiac PET: Phantom and human studies. Medical Physics 2019, 46: 4898-4906. PMID: 31508827, PMCID: PMC6842053, DOI: 10.1002/mp.13815.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsList-mode dataMotion-compensated image reconstructionMotion correctionCenter of massPET list-mode dataMotion correction methodMotion detectionMotion estimationImage reconstructionPatient body motionDegrade image qualityNonrigid registrationImage qualityMotion transformationCoincident distributionBody motion detectionCardiac positron emission tomographyBack-projection techniqueCovariance matrixImage volumesBody motionPositron emission tomographyBack-projectionReference framePhantomMR-based cardiac and respiratory motion correction of PET: application to static and dynamic cardiac 18F-FDG imaging
Petibon Y, Sun T, Han P, Ma C, Fakhri G, Ouyang J. MR-based cardiac and respiratory motion correction of PET: application to static and dynamic cardiac 18F-FDG imaging. Physics In Medicine And Biology 2019, 64: 195009. PMID: 31394518, PMCID: PMC7007962, DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ab39c2.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMR-based motion correctionRespiratory motion correctionMotion correctionImproved spatial resolutionReconstructed activity concentrationCardiac PET dataSpatial resolutionCoincidence eventsMR-basedPET imagingContrast-to-noise ratioCardiac PET imagingRespiratory phasesMC dataImprove image qualityMR acquisitionQuantitative accuracyCardiac PETPET dataActivity concentrationsMyocardium wallF-FDG PETDynamics studiesImage qualityMotion artifactsFree-Breathing Three-Dimensional T1 Mapping of the Heart Using Subspace-Based Data Acquisition and Image Reconstruction
Han P, Horng D, Marin T, Petibon Y, Ouyang J, Fakhri G, Ma C. Free-Breathing Three-Dimensional T1 Mapping of the Heart Using Subspace-Based Data Acquisition and Image Reconstruction. Annual International Conference Of The IEEE Engineering In Medicine And Biology Society (EMBC) 2019, 00: 4008-4011. PMID: 31946750, DOI: 10.1109/embc.2019.8856511.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRespiratory motionRespiratory gatingLongitudinal relaxation timeSubspace-based methodsLow-rank tensorMagnetic resonance imagingRelaxation timeT1 mappingT)-spaceSubspace-basedSparsity constraintDynamic MR imagingReconstructed mapsSpatiotemporal correlationThree-dimensionalCardiac MRHealthy subjectsIn vivo dataMagnetizationResonance imagingImage functionMR imagingData acquisitionClinical applicationTensor