The Influence of Data-Driven Compressed Sensing Reconstruction on Quantitative Pharmacokinetic Analysis in Breast DCE MRI

Radial acquisition with MOCCO reconstruction has been previously proposed for high spatial and temporal resolution breast DCE imaging. In this work, we characterize MOCCO across a wide range of temporal contrast enhancement in a digital reference object (DRO). Time-resolved radial data was simulated using a DRO with lesions in different PK parameters. The under sampled data were reconstructed at 5 s temporal resolution using the data-driven low-rank temporal model for MOCCO, compressed sensing with temporal total variation (CS-TV) and more conventional low-rank reconstruction (PCB). Our results demonstrated that MOCCO was able to recover curves with K(trans) values ranging from 0.01 to 0.8 min(−1) and fixed V(e) = 0.3, where the fitted results are within a 10% bias error range. MOCCO reconstruction showed less impact on the selection of different temporal models than conventional low-rank reconstruction and the greater error was observed with PCB. CS-TV showed overall underestimation in both K(trans) and V(e). For the Monte-Carlo simulations, MOCCO was found to provide the most accurate reconstruction results for curves with intermediate lesion kinetics in the presence of noise. Initial in vivo experiences are reported in one patient volunteer. Overall, MOCCO was able to provide reconstructed time-series data that resulted in a more accurate measurement of PK parameters than PCB and CS-TV.