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Ultrasonography-based 2D motion-compensated HIFU sonication integrated with reference-free MR temperature monitoring: a feasibility study ex vivo

Contributors

Auboiroux, Vincent; Petrusca, Lorena; Viallon, Magalie; Goget, Thomas; Becker, Christoph; Salomir, Rares Vincent

Published in

Physics in medicine and biology, vol. 57, no. 10, p. N159-171

Publication date

2012

Abstract

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasonography have been used simultaneously in this ex vivo study for the image-guidance of high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) treatment in moving tissue. A ventilator-driven balloon produced periodic and non-rigid (i.e. breathing-like) motion patterns in phantoms. MR-compatible ultrasound (US) imaging enabled near real-time 2D motion tracking based on optical flow detection, while near-harmonic reference-free proton resonance frequency shift (PRFS) MR thermometry (MRT) was used to monitor the thermal buildup on line. Reference-free MRT was applied to gradient-echo echo-planar imaging phase maps acquired at the frame rate of 250 to 300 ms/slice with voxel size 1.25×1.25×5 mm(3). The MR-US simultaneous imaging was completely free of mutual interferences while minor RF interferences from the HIFU device were detected in the far field of the US images. The effective duty-cycle of the HIFU sonication was close to 100 % and no off-interval was required to temporally decouple it from the ultrasonography. The motion compensation of the HIFU sonication was achieved with an 8 Hz frame rate and sub-millimeter spatial accuracy, both for single-focus mode and for an iterated multi-foci line scan. Near harmonic reference-less PRFS MRT delivered motion-robust thermal maps perpendicular or parallel to the HIFU beam (0.7 °C precision, 0.5 °C absolute accuracy). Out-of-plane motion compensation was not addressed in this study.

Keywords

  • Feasibility Studies
  • High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Ablation/instrumentation/methods
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods
  • Movement
  • Phantoms, Imaging
  • Sonication/methods
  • Systems Integration
  • Temperature
  • Ultrasonography/methods

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Citation (ISO format)

AUBOIROUX, Vincent et al. Ultrasonography-based 2D motion-compensated HIFU sonication integrated with reference-free MR temperature monitoring: a feasibility study ex vivo. In: Physics in medicine and biology, 2012, vol. 57, n° 10, p. N159–171. doi: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/10/N159

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0031-9155
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