Hoglund Biomedical Imaging Center, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA.
Department of Neurology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA.
Magn Reson Med. 2021 Dec;86(6):2930-2944. doi: 10.1002/mrm.28949. Epub 2021 Aug 2.
To develop a new rapid spatial filtering method for lipid removal, fast lipid reconstruction and removal processing (FLIP), which selectively isolates and removes interfering lipid signals from outside the brain in a full-FOV 2D MRSI and whole-brain 3D echo planar spectroscopic imaging (EPSI).
FLIP uses regularized least-squares regression based on spatial prior information from MRI to selectively remove lipid signals originating from the scalp and measure the brain metabolite signals with minimum cross contamination. FLIP is a noniterative approach, thus allowing a rapid processing speed, and uses only spatial information without any spectral priors. The performance of FLIP was compared with the Papoulis-Gerchberg algorithm (PGA), Hankel singular value decomposition (HSVD), and fast image reconstruction with L2 regularization (L2).
FLIP in both 2D and 3D MRSI resulted in consistent metabolite quantification in a greater number of voxels with less concentration variation than other algorithms, demonstrating effective and robust lipid-removal performance. The percentage of voxels that met quality criteria with FLIP, PGA, HSVD, and L2 processing were 90%, 57%, 29%, and 42% in 2D MRSI, and 80%, 75%, 76%, and 74% in 3D EPSI, respectively. The quantification results of full-FOV MRSI using FLIP were comparable to those of volume-localized MRSI, while allowing significantly increased spatial coverage. FLIP performed the fastest in 2D MRSI.
FLIP is a new lipid-removal algorithm that promises fast and effective lipid removal with improved volume coverage in MRSI.
开发一种新的快速空间滤波方法用于脂质去除,即快速脂质重建和去除处理(FLIP),该方法可选择性地从全视野 2D MRSI 和全脑 3D 回波平面波谱成像(EPSI)中的脑外隔离和去除干扰脂质信号。
FLIP 使用基于 MRI 空间先验信息的正则化最小二乘回归,选择性地去除来自头皮的脂质信号,并以最小的交叉污染测量脑代谢物信号。FLIP 是一种非迭代方法,因此允许快速处理速度,并且仅使用空间信息而不使用任何谱先验。比较了 FLIP 与 Papoulis-Gerchberg 算法(PGA)、Hankel 奇异值分解(HSVD)和具有 L2 正则化的快速图像重建(L2)的性能。
FLIP 在 2D 和 3D MRSI 中均能在更多体素中实现一致的代谢物定量,浓度变化小于其他算法,显示出有效的稳健脂质去除性能。FLIP、PGA、HSVD 和 L2 处理的满足质量标准的体素百分比分别为 2D MRSI 中的 90%、57%、29%和 42%,3D EPSI 中的 80%、75%、76%和 74%。使用 FLIP 的全视野 MRSI 定量结果与容积定位 MRSI 相当,同时允许显著增加空间覆盖范围。FLIP 在 2D MRSI 中速度最快。
FLIP 是一种新的脂质去除算法,有望在 MRSI 中实现快速有效的脂质去除,并提高容积覆盖范围。