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Comparison of the performance of tracer kinetic model-driven registration for dynamic contrast enhanced MRI using different models of contrast enhancement.
Buonaccorsi, Giovanni A Roberts, Caleb Cheung, Susan Watson, Yvonne O'Connor, James P B Davies, Karen Jackson, Alan Jayson, Gordon C Parker, Geoff J M
Buonaccorsi, Giovanni A
Roberts, Caleb
Cheung, Susan
Watson, Yvonne
O'Connor, James P B
Davies, Karen
Jackson, Alan
Jayson, Gordon C
Parker, Geoff J M
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Abstract
RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: The quantitative analysis of dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data is subject to model fitting errors caused by motion during the time-series data acquisition. However, the time-varying features that occur as a result of contrast enhancement can confound motion correction techniques based on conventional registration similarity measures. We have therefore developed a heuristic, locally controlled tracer kinetic model-driven registration procedure, in which the model accounts for contrast enhancement, and applied it to the registration of abdominal DCE-MRI data at high temporal resolution. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Using severely motion-corrupted data sets that had been excluded from analysis in a clinical trial of an antiangiogenic agent, we compared the results obtained when using different models to drive the tracer kinetic model-driven registration with those obtained when using a conventional registration against the time series mean image volume. RESULTS: Using tracer kinetic model-driven registration, it was possible to improve model fitting by reducing the sum of squared errors but the improvement was only realized when using a model that adequately described the features of the time series data. The registration against the time series mean significantly distorted the time series data, as did tracer kinetic model-driven registration using a simpler model of contrast enhancement. CONCLUSION: When an appropriate model is used, tracer kinetic model-driven registration influences motion-corrupted model fit parameter estimates and provides significant improvements in localization in three-dimensional parameter maps. This has positive implications for the use of quantitative DCE-MRI for example in clinical trials of antiangiogenic or antivascular agents.
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Date
2006-09
Publisher
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Keywords
Abdominal Cancer
Type
Article
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Comparison of the performance of tracer kinetic model-driven registration for dynamic contrast enhanced MRI using different models of contrast enhancement. 2006, 13 (9):1112-23 Acad Radiol