IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2018 Sep;37(9):1989-1998. doi: 10.1109/TMI.2017.2787500. Epub 2017 Dec 25.
Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI), a molecular imaging modality that images biocompatible superparamagnetic iron oxide tracers, is well-suited for clinical angiography, in vivo cell tracking, cancer detection, and inflammation imaging. MPI is sensitive and quantitative to tracer concentration, with a positive contrast that is not attenuated or corrupted by tissue background. Like other clinical imaging techniques, such as computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and nuclear medicine, MPI can be modeled as a linear and shift-invariant system with a well-defined point spread function (PSF) capturing the system blur. The key difference, as we show here, is that the MPI PSF is highly dependent on scanning parameters and is anisotropic using only a single-imaging trajectory. This anisotropic resolution poses a major challenge for clear and accurate clinical diagnosis. In this paper, we generalize a tensor imaging theory for multidimensional x-space MPI to explore the physical source of this anisotropy, present a multi-channel scanning algorithm to enable isotropic resolution, and experimentally demonstrate isotropic MPI resolution through the construction and the use of two orthogonal excitation and detector coil pairs.
磁共振粒子成像(MPI)是一种分子成像方式,可对生物相容性超顺磁性氧化铁示踪剂进行成像,非常适合临床血管造影、体内细胞跟踪、癌症检测和炎症成像。MPI 对示踪剂浓度敏感且定量,具有正对比度,不会被组织背景衰减或损坏。与其他临床成像技术(如计算机断层扫描、磁共振成像和核医学)一样,MPI 可以建模为具有明确定义的点扩散函数(PSF)的线性和位移不变系统,该 PSF 捕获系统模糊。正如我们在这里所示的那样,关键区别在于 MPI PSF 高度依赖于扫描参数,并且仅使用单个成像轨迹是各向异性的。这种各向异性分辨率对清晰准确的临床诊断构成了重大挑战。在本文中,我们推广了多维 x 空间 MPI 的张量成像理论,以探索这种各向异性的物理来源,提出了一种多通道扫描算法以实现各向同性分辨率,并通过构建和使用两个正交的激发和探测器线圈对实验证明了各向同性 MPI 分辨率。
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