Application of adaptive techniques to Magnetic Resonance Imaging of perfusion ; Application des techniques adaptatives à l'imagerie par résonance magnétique de perfusion

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) requires tools for managing physiological and other motion of the patient. The generation of MR images consists of three steps: data acquisition with a pulse sequence, image reconstruction and image post-processing. Adaptive image reconstruction techniques aim at integrating motion information into the process of image generation from the acquired data, in order to compensate for motion-induced artefacts and problems. Dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) MRI is a technique designed for assessing the function of organs, by following dynamically the passage of a contrast agent in the body after a bolus injection. Motion-induced problems, especially in abdominal and thoracic DCE-MRI, consist of motion artefacts and misregistration. A new image reconstruction method, DCE-GRICS (Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Generalized Reconstruction by Inversion of Coupled Systems), has been developed for solving these issues. Motion is estimated with a non rigid linear model based on physiological signals obtained from external sensors. Dynamic intensity changes caused by the passage of the contrast agent are described using a linear contrast change model based on B-splines. The method is applied and validated on myocardial perfusion imaging. Motion-induced inaccuracies in intensity-time curves are compensated, in order to allow for more reliable myocardial perfusion quantification by curve post-processing. ; L'Imagerie par Résonance Magnétique (IRM) nécessite des outils pour gérer le mouvement physiologique et autre du sujet. La création des images par l'IRM comporte trois étapes: l'acquisition de données avec une séquence d'impulsions, la reconstruction d'images, et le post-traitement. Les techniques adaptatives de reconstruction d'images visent à intégrer des informations liées au mouvement dans le processus de génération d'images à partir de données acquises, ceci dans le but de compenser les artéfacts et problèmes provoqués par le mouvement. L'IRM dynamique avec rehaussement de contraste est une ...