Frank Preiswerk1, Cheng-Chieh Cheng1, Sanjay S. Yengul1,2, Lawrence P. Panych1, and Bruno Madore1
1Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States, 2Mechanical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
MRI can provide favorable image quality for image-guided interventions, but both magnetic field of the scanner and limited patient access inside the bore impose many limitations on image-guidance endeavors. The aim of this work was to estimate MRI of respiratory organ motion outside the scanner, which allows for a wider range of interventional applications. A single-element ultrasound transducer was used as a surrogate for the MR scanner outside the bore, after the correlation between both signals had been learned in a preceding training phase. Validation of estimated MR images outside the bore was performed using tracked 2D ultrasound.
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