Simultaneous multi-slice steady-state free precession myocardial perfusion with iterative reconstruction and integrated motion compensation
Abstract
PURPOSE: Simultaneous multi-slice (SMS) balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP) acquisition and iterative reconstruction can provide high spatial resolution and coverage for cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) perfusion. However, respiratory motion remains a challenge for iterative reconstruction techniques employing temporal regularisation. The aim of this study is to evaluate an iterative reconstruction with integrated motion compensation for SMS-bSSFP first-pass myocardial stress perfusion in the presence of respiratory motion. METHODS: Thirty-one patients with suspected coronary artery disease were prospectively recruited and imaged at 1.5 T. A SMS-bSSFP prototype myocardial perfusion sequence was acquired at stress in all patients. All datasets were reconstructed using an iterative reconstruction with temporal regularisation, once with and once without motion compensation (MC and NMC, respectively). Three readers scored each dataset in terms of: image quality (1:poor; 4:excellent), motion/blurring (1:severe motion/blurring; 3:no motion/blurring), and diagnostic confidence (1:poor confidence; 3:high confidence). Quantitative assessment of sharpness was performed. The number of uncorrupted first-pass dynamics was measured on the NMC datasets to classify patients into 'suboptimal breath-hold (BH)' and 'good BH' groups. RESULTS: Compared across all cases, MC performed better than NMC in terms of image quality (3.5 ± 0.5 vs. 3.0 ± 0.8, P = 0.002), motion/blurring (2.9 ± 0.1 vs. 2.2 ± 0.8, P < 0.001), diagnostic confidence (2.9 ± 0.1 vs. 2.3 ± 0.7, P < 0.001) and sharpness index (0.34 ± 0.05 vs. 0.31 ± 0.06, P < 0.001). Fourteen patients with a suboptimal BH were identified. For the suboptimal BH group, MC performed better than NMC in terms of image quality (3.8 ± 0.4 vs. 2.6 ± 0.8, P < 0.001), motion/blurring (3.0 ± 0.1 vs. 1.6 ± 0.7, P < 0.001), diagnostic confidence (3.0 ± 0.1 vs. 1.9 ± 0.7, P < 0.001) and sharpness index (0.34 ± 0.05 vs. 0.30 ± 0.06, P = 0.004). For the good BH group, sharpness index was higher for MC than NMC (0.34 ± 0.06 vs 0.31 ± 0.07, P = 0.03), while there were no significant differences observed for the other three metrics assessed (P > 0.11). There were no significant differences between suboptimal BH MC and good BH MC for any of the reported metrics (P > 0.06). CONCLUSIONS: Integrated motion compensation significantly reduces motion/blurring and improves image quality, diagnostic confidence and sharpness index of SMS-bSSFP perfusion with iterative reconstruction in the presence of motion.
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BibTeX
@article{mcelroy2026simultaneous,
title = {{Simultaneous multi-slice steady-state free precession myocardial perfusion with iterative reconstruction and integrated motion compensation}},
author = {Sarah Mcelroy and Karl Kunze and Muhummad Sohaib Nazir and Peter Speier and Daniel Stäb and Adriana D.M. Villa and Momina Yazdani and Vittoria Vergani and Sébastien Roujol and Radhouene Neji and Amedeo Chiribiri},
journal = {European Journal of Radiology},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.1016/j.ejrad.2022.110286},
url = {https://hal.science/hal-05796001v1},
note = {CC BY},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - Simultaneous multi-slice steady-state free precession myocardial perfusion with iterative reconstruction and integrated motion compensation
AU - Sarah Mcelroy
AU - Karl Kunze
AU - Muhummad Sohaib Nazir
AU - Peter Speier
AU - Daniel Stäb
AU - Adriana D.M. Villa
AU - Momina Yazdani
AU - Vittoria Vergani
AU - Sébastien Roujol
AU - Radhouene Neji
AU - Amedeo Chiribiri
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/12
JO - European Journal of Radiology
DO - 10.1016/j.ejrad.2022.110286
UR - https://hal.science/hal-05796001v1
AB - PURPOSE: Simultaneous multi-slice (SMS) balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP) acquisition and iterative reconstruction can provide high spatial resolution and coverage for cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) perfusion. However, respiratory motion remains a challenge for iterative reconstruction techniques employing temporal regularisation. The aim of this study is to evaluate an iterative reconstruction with integrated motion compensation for SMS-bSSFP first-pass myocardial stress perfusion in the presence of respiratory motion. METHODS: Thirty-one patients with suspected coronary artery disease were prospectively recruited and imaged at 1.5 T. A SMS-bSSFP prototype myocardial perfusion sequence was acquired at stress in all patients. All datasets were reconstructed using an iterative reconstruction with temporal regularisation, once with and once without motion compensation (MC and NMC, respectively). Three readers scored each dataset in terms of: image quality (1:poor; 4:excellent), motion/blurring (1:severe motion/blurring; 3:no motion/blurring), and diagnostic confidence (1:poor confidence; 3:high confidence). Quantitative assessment of sharpness was performed. The number of uncorrupted first-pass dynamics was measured on the NMC datasets to classify patients into 'suboptimal breath-hold (BH)' and 'good BH' groups. RESULTS: Compared across all cases, MC performed better than NMC in terms of image quality (3.5 ± 0.5 vs. 3.0 ± 0.8, P = 0.002), motion/blurring (2.9 ± 0.1 vs. 2.2 ± 0.8, P < 0.001), diagnostic confidence (2.9 ± 0.1 vs. 2.3 ± 0.7, P < 0.001) and sharpness index (0.34 ± 0.05 vs. 0.31 ± 0.06, P < 0.001). Fourteen patients with a suboptimal BH were identified. For the suboptimal BH group, MC performed better than NMC in terms of image quality (3.8 ± 0.4 vs. 2.6 ± 0.8, P < 0.001), motion/blurring (3.0 ± 0.1 vs. 1.6 ± 0.7, P < 0.001), diagnostic confidence (3.0 ± 0.1 vs. 1.9 ± 0.7, P < 0.001) and sharpness index (0.34 ± 0.05 vs. 0.30 ± 0.06, P = 0.004). For the good BH group, sharpness index was higher for MC than NMC (0.34 ± 0.06 vs 0.31 ± 0.07, P = 0.03), while there were no significant differences observed for the other three metrics assessed (P > 0.11). There were no significant differences between suboptimal BH MC and good BH MC for any of the reported metrics (P > 0.06). CONCLUSIONS: Integrated motion compensation significantly reduces motion/blurring and improves image quality, diagnostic confidence and sharpness index of SMS-bSSFP perfusion with iterative reconstruction in the presence of motion.
SN - 0720-048X
ER -