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- Title
Structured analysis of the impact of fetal motion on phase-contrast MRI flow measurements with metric optimized gating.
- Authors
Schulz, Alexander; Lloyd, David F. A.; van Poppel, Milou P. M.; Roberts, Thomas A.; Steinweg, Johannes K.; Pushparajah, Kuberan; Hajnal, Joseph V.; Razavi, Reza
- Abstract
The impact of fetal motion on phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging (PC-MRI) with metric optimized gating (MOG) remains unknown, despite being a known limitation to prenatal MRI. This study aims to describe the effect of motion on fetal flow-measurements using PC-MRI with MOG and to generate a scoring-system that could be used to predict motion-corrupted datasets at the time of acquisition. Ten adult volunteers underwent PC-MRI with MOG using a motion-device to simulate reproducible in-plane motion encountered in fetuses. PC-MRI data were acquired on ten fetuses. All ungated images were rated on their quality from 0 (no motion) to 2 (severe motion). There was no significant difference in measured flows with in-plane motion during the first and last third of sequence acquisition. Movement in the middle section of acquisition produced a significant difference while all referring ungated images were rated with a score of 2. Intra-Class-Correlation (ICC) for flow-measurements in adult and fetal datasets was lower for datasets with scores of 2. For fetal applications, the use of a simple three-point scoring system reliably identifies motion-corrupted sequences from unprocessed data at the time of acquisition, with a high score corresponding to significant underestimation of flow values and increased interobserver variability.
- Subjects
FETAL ultrasonic imaging; PHASE contrast magnetic resonance imaging; FLOW measurement; MAGNETIC resonance imaging
- Publication
Scientific Reports, 2022, Vol 12, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2045-2322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41598-022-09327-1