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Accelerating CEST imaging using a model-based deep neural network with synthetic training data
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Purpose: To develop a model-based deep neural network for high-quality image reconstruction of undersampled multi-coil CEST data. Theory and Methods: Inspired by the variational network (VN), the CEST image reconstruction equation is unrolled into a deep neural network (CEST-VN) with a k-space data-sharing block that takes advantage of the inherent redundancy in adjacent CEST frames and 3D spatial-frequential convolution kernels that exploit correlations in the x-omega domain. Additionally, a new pipeline based on multiple-pool Bloch-McConnell simulations is devised to synthesize multi-coil CEST data from publicly available anatomical MRI data. The proposed network is trained on simulated data with a CEST-specific loss function that jointly measures the structural and CEST contrast. The performance of CEST-VN was evaluated on four healthy volunteers and five brain tumor patients using retrospectively or prospectively undersampled data with various acceleration factors, and then compared with other conventional and state-of-the-art reconstruction methods. Results: The proposed CEST-VN method generated high-quality CEST source images and amide proton transfer-weighted maps in healthy and brain tumor subjects, consistently outperforming GRAPPA, blind compressed sensing, and the original VN. With the acceleration factors increasing from 3 to 6, CEST-VN with the same hyperparameters yielded similar and accurate reconstruction without apparent loss of details or increase of artifacts. The ablation studies confirmed the effectiveness of the CEST-specific loss function and data-sharing block used. Conclusions: The proposed CEST-VN method can offer high-quality CEST source images and amide proton transfer-weighted maps from highly undersampled multi-coil data by integrating the deep learning prior and multi-coil sensitivity encoding model.
Keywords:
CEST
deep learning
fast MRI
image reconstruction
variational network
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