Modelling continuous arterial blood data from mr-compatible sampler in simultenous pet-MRI experiments

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Abstract

In the context of experimental PET imaging, continuously arterial blood sampling is often performed to obtain a time-continuous description of the radiotracer blood activity following its administration. This information is important to quantify the delivery of the tracer into tissues through the kinetic modelling analysis. With the introduction of simultaneous PET-MRI scanners, a new generation of automatic blood samplers compatible with the high magnetic field of the equipment has been introduced; however, the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of these counters is much poorer. In this work we extend an existing pipeline of blood modelling (called 'MultiBlood') to the analysis of arterial blood data obtained from MR-compatible samplers. We show that this method can filter out the excess of noise and return blood data time-activity courses comparable with the previous generation of blood samplers.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationISBI 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages750-753
Number of pages4
Volume2019-April
ISBN (Electronic)9781538636411
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Apr 2019
Event16th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2019 - Venice, Italy
Duration: 8 Apr 201911 Apr 2019

Conference

Conference16th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2019
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityVenice
Period8/04/201911/04/2019

Keywords

  • Arterial modelling
  • Blood sampling
  • Simultaneous PET-MRI

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