Abstract #2017

Accelerated Phosphorus MR Spectroscopic Imaging of Human Brain Using Compressed Sensing

Gokce H. Hatay¹, Cagil Gumus¹, Bahattin Hakyemez², Esin Ozturk-Isik³

¹Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey; ²Department of Radiology, Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey; ³Biomedical Engineering, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey

This study aims at assessing compressed sensing reconstruction for faster phosphorus MR spectroscopic imaging (31P MRSI) of human brain. A 31P MRSI dataset containing a tumor region and a healthy region was created based on the metabolite peak intensities of a volunteer dataset acquired at 3T. k-space data was randomly undersampled while preserving the cental portion for a reduction factor of 1.6, and reconstructed using compressed sensing. This study showed that compressed sensing reconstruction could be applied for faster 31P MR spectroscopic imaging, and its performance will be assessed in brain tumors.