Initial Experience of Applying TWIST-Dixon With Flexible View Sharing in Breast DCE-MRI.

A feasible high spatiotemporal resolution breast DCE-MRI protocol for clinical settings.

Three dimensional bilateral imaging is the standard for most clinical breast dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) MRI protocols. Because of high spatial resolution (sRes) requirement, the typical 1-2 min temporal resolution (tRes) afforded by a conventional full-k-space-sampling gradient echo (GRE) sequence precludes meaningful and accurate pharmacokinetic analysis of DCE time-course data. The comme...

Improved Temporal Resolution TWIST Reconstruction using Annihilating Filter-based Low-rank Hankel Matrix

In dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) MRI, temporal and spatial resolution can be improved by timeresolved angiography with interleaved stochastic trajectories (TWIST). However, due to view sharing, the temporal resolution of TWIST is not a true one. To overcome this limitation, we employ recently proposed annihilating filter-based low rank Hankel matrix approach (ALOHA) that interpolates the miss...

Fat saturation in breast dynamic constrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI): comparison between DIXON and SPAIR techniques

Automatic Prostate Cancer Segmentation Using Kinetic Analysis in Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI

Background: Dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) provides functional information on the microcirculation in tissues by analyzing the enhancement kinetics which can be used as biomarkers for prostate lesions detection and characterization.Objective: The purpose of this study is to investigate spatiotemporal patterns of tumors by extracting semi-quantitative as well as w...

Computer-aided detection of breast lesions in DCE-MRI using region growing based on fuzzy C-means clustering and vesselness filter

A computer-aided detection (CAD) system is introduced in this paper for detection of breast lesions in dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI). The proposed CAD system firstly compensates motion artifacts and segments the breast region. Then, the potential lesion voxels are detected and used as the initial seed points for the seeded region-growing algorithm. A new and rob...