Abstract
Respiratory motion is one major complicating factor in many image acquisition applications and image-guided interventions. Existing respiratory motion estimation and compensation methods typically rely on breathing motion models learned from certain training data, and therefore may not be able to effectively handle intra-subject and/or inter-subject variations of respiratory motion. In this paper, we propose a respiratory motion compensation framework that directly recovers motion fields from sparsely spaced and efficiently acquired dynamic 2-D MRIs without using a learned respiratory motion model. We present a scatter-to-volume deformable registration algorithm to register dynamic 2-D MRIs with a static 3-D MRI to recover dense deformation fields. Practical considerations and approximations are provided to solve the scatter-to-volume registration problem efficiently. The performance of the proposed method was investigated on both synthetic and real MRI datasets, and the results showed significant improvements over the state-of-art respiratory motion modeling methods. We also demonstrated a potential application of the proposed method on MRI-based motion corrected PET imaging using hybrid PET/MRI.
Original language | English (US) |
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Journal | Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics |
DOIs | |
State | Accepted/In press - Aug 25 2015 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Image registration
- Motion estimation
- MRI
- PET
- Respiratory motion
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
- Health Informatics
- Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition