To overcome the shortcomings of curve fitting to quantify perfusion properties, a dictionary matching approach like that used in magnetic resonance fingerprinting is proposed. This dictionary matching approach could be used for any DCE application or model, but is demonstrated and validated here for a dual-input single-compartment model of liver DCE-MRI data. The dictionary matching method provides similar results to the curve fitting method while being simpler to implement and dramatically faster.
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