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Comparison between Conventional Breath-hold and Respiratory-triggered Magnetic Resonance Cholangiopancreatography with and without Compressed Sensing: Cross-sectional Study

Author(s): Younguk Kim, Eun Sun Lee*, Hyun Jeong Park, Sung Bin Park, Bernd Kuehn, Jae Kon Sung, Yaeji Lim and Changwoo Kim

Volume 20, 2024

Published on: 18 May, 2023

Article ID: e280323215033 Pages: 10

DOI: 10.2174/1573405620666230328093206

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Abstract

Introduction: The application of compressed sensing (CS) has enabled breath-hold 3D-MRCP with a shorter acquisition time in clinical practice.

Aim: To compare the image quality of breath-hold (BH) and respiratory-triggered (RT) 3D-MRCP with or without CS application in the same study population.

Methods: In this retrospective study, from February to July 2020, a total of 98 consecutive patients underwent four different acquisition types of 3D-MRCP.; 1) BH MRCP with the generalized autocalibrating partially parallel acquisition (GRAPPA) (BH-GRAPPA), 2) RT-GRAPPA-MRCP, 3) RT-CSMRCP and 4) BH-CS-MRCP. Relative contrast of common bile duct, 5-scale visibility score of biliary pancreatic ducts, 3-scale artifact score and 5-scale overall image quality score were evaluated by two abdominal radiologists.

Results: Relative contrast value was significantly higher in BH-CS or RT-CS than in RT-GRAPPA (0.90 ± 0.057 and 0.89 ± 0.079, respectively, vs. 0.82 ± 0.071, p < 0.01) or BH-GRAPPA (vs. 0.77 ± 0.080, p < 0.01). The area affected by artifact was significantly lower in BH-CS among 4 MRCPs (p < 0.01). Overall image quality score in BH-CS was significantly higher than BH-GRAPPA (3.40 vs. 2.71, p < 0.01). There were no significant differences between RT-GRAPPA and BH-CS (vs. 3.13, p = 0.67) in overall image quality.

Conclusion: In this study, our results revealed BH-CS had higher relative contrast and comparable or superior image quality among four MRCP sequences.

Keywords: Cholangiopancreatography, Magnetic resonance, Data compression, Image enhancement, Breath holding, Respiratory-gated imaging techniques.

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