Spatio-Temporal Bandwidth-Base Segmented Acquisition for Dynamic 3D Contrast-Enhanced Breast MRI

Introduction Dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE-MRI) of the breast should ideally be performed at high temporal and high spatial resolution to evaluate both enhancement dynamics and lesion spatialarchitectural features (1,2). There is, however, an inherent tradeoff between the maximum achievable temporal and spatial resolution (3). In this work, a formalism is presented that considers the dual bandwidth properties of an object’s spatial and temporal enhancement features, in devising a segmented k-space 3D (NX readout, NY N, phase encode) acquisition scheme.