Abstract
Over more than 30 years in vivo MR spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) has undergone an enormous evolution from theoretical concepts in the early 1980s to the robust imaging technique that it is today. The development of both fast and efficient sampling and reconstruction techniques has played a fundamental role in this process. State‐of‐the‐art MRSI has grown from a slow purely phase‐encoded acquisition technique to a method that today combines the benefits of different acceleration techniques. These include shortening of repetition times, spatial‐spectral encoding, undersampling of k‐space and time domain, and use of spatial‐spectral prior knowledge in the reconstruction. In this way in vivo MRSI has considerably advanced in terms of spatial coverage, spatial resolution, acquisition speed, artifact suppression, number of detectable metabolites and quantification precision. Acceleration not only has been the enabling factor in high‐resolution whole‐brain 1H‐MRSI, but today is also common in non‐proton MRSI (31P, 2H and 13C) and applied in many different organs. In this process, MRSI techniques had to constantly adapt, but have also benefitted from the significant increase of magnetic field strength boosting the signal‐to‐noise ratio along with high gradient fidelity and high‐density receive arrays. In combination with recent trends in image reconstruction and much improved computation power, these advances led to a number of novel developments with respect to MRSI acceleration. Today MRSI allows for non‐invasive and non‐ionizing mapping of the spatial distribution of various metabolites’ tissue concentrations in animals or humans, is applied for clinical diagnostics and has been established as an important tool for neuro‐scientific and metabolism research. This review highlights the developments of the last five years and puts them into the context of earlier MRSI acceleration techniques. In addition to 1H‐MRSI it also includes other relevant nuclei and is not limited to certain body regions or specific applications.
Keywords: acceleration, acquisition, compressed sensing, MR spectroscopic imaging, parallel imaging, reconstruction, spatial‐spectral encoding, undersampling
This review summarizes the progress in fast MR spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) of the last five years and puts it into the context of earlier MRSI acceleration techniques. It highlights emerging techniques for time‐efficient sampling of MRSI data including repetition time reduction, spatial‐spectral encoding, k‐space undersampling, and use of spatial‐spectral prior knowledge. In addition to 1H‐MRSI it also includes other relevant nuclei and is not limited to certain body regions or specific applications.
Abbreviations
- B0
static magnetic field strength
- B1+
transmit RF field
- CAIPIRINHA
controlled aliasing in parallel imaging results in higher acceleration
- CRT
concentric ring trajectory
- CS
compressed sensing
- CSDE
chemical shift displacement error
- EPI
echo planar imaging
- EPSI
echo‐planar spectroscopic imaging
- FID
free induction decay
- FIDLOVS
FID acquisition localized by outer volume suppression
- GRAPPA
generalized autocalibrating partially parallel acquisition
- GSLIM
generalized series approach to MR spectroscopic imaging
- IDEAL
iterative decomposition of water and fat with echo asymmetry and least‐squares estimation
- LASER
localization by adiabatic selective refocusing
- MRSI
MR spectroscopic imaging
- OVS
outer volume suppression
- PEPSI
proton EPSI
- PI
parallel imaging
- PRESS
point resolved spectroscopy
- SAR
specific absorption rate
- SBW
spectral bandwidth
- SE
spin echo
- SENSE
sensitivity encoding
- SLAM
spectroscopy with linear algebraic modeling
- SLIM
spectral localization by imaging
- SLOOP
spectral localization with optimal pointspread function;
- SMS
simultaneous multi‐slice
- SNR
signal‐to‐noise ratio
- SNR/t
SNR per unit time
- SPICE
spectroscopic imaging by exploiting spatiospectral correlation
- SRF
spatial response function
- SSE
spatial‐spectral encoding
- SSFP
steady‐state free precession
- TE
echo time
- TR
repetition time
- UHF
ultra‐high field
1. INTRODUCTION
Shortly after the introduction of in vivo MRI and non‐localized in vivo MRS, in vivo MR spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) was demonstrated in the early 1980s. Two distinct acquisition methods were suggested: (i) “NMR chemical shift imaging in three dimensions” in 1982 by Brown et al. 1 and “Spatially resolved high‐resolution spectroscopy by 4‐dimensional NMR” by Maudsley et al. 2 in 1983 as well as (ii) “Spatial mapping of the chemical shift in NMR” in 1984 by Mansfield. 3 While (i) corresponds to classical phase‐encoded and thus non‐accelerated MRSI, (ii) represents the very first description of the most popular spatial‐spectral MRSI acceleration method, echo‐planar spectroscopic imaging (EPSI). 4 In these early days hardware limitations such as gradient strength and fidelity as well as static magnetic field strength (B 0) and homogeneity hindered the translation of these theoretical concepts into the excellent results that we can obtain today. However, during the last 30 years in vivo MRSI has undergone an enormous evolution in terms of spatial coverage, spatial resolution, acquisition speed, artifact suppression, number of detectable metabolites, and quantification accuracy and precision. Today it allows for non‐invasive and non‐ionizing whole‐organ (e.g., brain) mapping of various metabolites’ tissue concentrations in animals and humans (e.g., up to 12 brain metabolites 5 and nine macromolecular compounds 6 ), up to 300 times faster than conventional phase‐encoded 1H‐MRSI. 7 While mainly conventional point resolved spectroscopy (PRESS)‐localized Cartesian‐sampled MRSI is currently applied for clinical diagnostics, 8 basic and advanced MRSI protocols have been established as important tools for neuro‐scientific and metabolism research. 8
Due to the need to encode the chemical shift along with spatial information, classical MRSI utilizes phase encoding along all directions, which is intrinsically slow. Another complication is the very low signal intensity of metabolites. In comparison to 1H‐MRI of tissue water, 1H‐MRSI of tissue metabolites is about 10 000 times less sensitive due to the concentration difference between water and metabolites. In addition, abundant water and fat signals lead to much stricter needs to control related artifacts. MRSI of other nuclei such as 31P, 2H or 13C is yet another order of magnitude less sensitive and lacks the possibility to use anatomical images as reference and to generate prior knowledge, which further restricts the acceleration options. Hyperpolarized 13C‐MRSI has sufficiently high signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR) and only a few metabolite peaks, but suffers from acquisition time restrictions. Thus, hyperpolarized 13C‐MRSI has benefitted particularly from the development of fast MRSI encoding techniques in the past, achieving nowadays time resolutions needed for assessing real‐time metabolic fluxes in clinical settings. 9
While the basic principles of 1H‐MRI acceleration are applicable to 1H‐ and non‐proton MRSI as well, they usually need substantial adaptation to encode chemical shift, work robustly in a low‐SNR regime and in the presence of strong nuisance signals (e.g., water, fat) or meet the scan time restrictions in hyperpolarized 13C‐MRSI.
There are four main principles for accelerating MRSI: (i) short repetition times (T R), (ii) acquisition of multiple k‐space points per T R, (iii) k‐space undersampling and (iv) data reconstruction using spectral or spatial prior knowledge. Reports on the short‐T R principle range from moderately short T R values to true steady‐state free precession (SSFP). The acquisition of multiple k‐space points per T R can be accomplished by either multi‐spin‐echo sampling or more commonly spatial‐spectral encoding (SSE) including EPSI or non‐Cartesian k‐space trajectories. In a broad sense “k‐space undersampling” methods include widely available methods such as elliptical k‐space shuttering 10 or MRS pre‐localization (i.e., allowing field‐of‐view reduction with fewer required k‐space points). “Real” k‐space undersampling approaches include parallel imaging (PI), multi‐band acquisition, and compressed sensing (CS). Finally, there are reconstruction techniques that use prior knowledge from high‐resolution anatomical images and spectral priors, and combinations with low‐rank reconstruction. All these acceleration principles are complementary and can be combined. A detailed introduction of k‐space formalism and filtering is outside the scope of this review. We refer the interested reader to two excellent books that provide a general introduction, before continuing with the more specific sections detailed below. 10 , 11
Related MRSI encoding methods have been reviewed by a number of previous review papers and book chapters 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 that either cover mostly literature from before 2014 or have a limited coverage with respect to acceleration methods or applications. Recent progress in MRSI encoding has significantly benefitted from ultra‐high field (UHF) systems, high gradient fidelity and high‐density receive coil arrays. In addition, a number of dedicated acceleration methods for hyperpolarized 13C‐MRSI have been demonstrated. In combination with emerging trends in image reconstruction and much improved computation power, these advances led to a number of novel developments with respect to MRSI acceleration. Hence, this review highlights the developments of the last 5 years and puts them into the context of earlier techniques. In addition to 1H‐MRSI it also includes other relevant nuclei and is not limited to certain body regions or specific applications. Thus, this review paper represents the most comprehensive and most up to date one of its kind.
2. SHORT T R/T E
The most straightforward way to speed up MRSI is by either shortening the T R, 17 , 18 , 19 or acquiring multiple spin echoes (SEs) per T R. 14 , 15 This approach has its roots in the early 2000s, when highly SNR‐efficient SSFP as well as turbo‐SE sequences were proposed for MRSI. 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 These sequences benefit either from fast point‐by‐point sampling of the k‐space with short T R, 17 , 18 , 19 or from sampling of multiple k‐space points per T R in the case of multiple SEs 20 , 21 (ie, their relative contribution is a function of the T 1/T 2 ratio and flip angles). Both methods restrict the acquisition time for the spectral readout to the inter‐pulse delay. Due to the resulting reduced spectral resolution, 21 , 22 SSFP‐MRSI was initially confined to well separated resonances (e.g., fat/water mapping, only the singlets of NAA, Cr and Cho in 1H‐MRSI, or 31P/13C‐MRSI) 19 , 23 , 24 and animal studies (i.e., featuring faster encoding gradients and higher spectral resolution due to available high‐B 0 MR scanners). 17 , 18 This changed when improved hardware became available also for human whole‐body MR systems and enabled the acquisition of true SSFP‐based 1H‐MRSI (T R < 200 ms) of the human brain with sufficiently high spatial and spectral resolution. 25 , 26 , 27 Although SSFP‐based MRSI yields the highest possible SNR efficiency, major downsides include the low spectral resolution, limited water suppression, potential banding artifacts and strongly T 1‐/T 2‐weighted metabolite signals, which make metabolic maps highly qualitative without relaxation corrections, and interpretation of the exact neurochemical underpinnings in pathologies challenging. Recent implementations overcome problems with banding artifacts by using balanced SSFP with either a very narrow pass‐band frequency selective excitation and frequency sweeping 28 or successive measurements with phase increments to achieve the spectral separation in a similar manner to the Dixon approach 29
Albeit not as SNR efficient as SSFP‐MRSI, the lack of undesired T 2‐weighting or J‐coupling effects has made pulse‐acquire or free induction decay (FID)‐MRSI sequences with Ernst angle excitation and gradient spoiling after each T R (Figure 1) an increasingly popular alternative, not only for 31P‐MRSI 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 and 13C‐MRSI, 24 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 but also recently for 1H‐MRSI. 5 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 The FIDLOVS (FID acquisition localized by outer volume suppression) sequence 43 had still a fairly complicated design with a large number of outer volume suppression (OVS) pulses causing high specific absorption rate (SAR) demands at 7 T and consequently long T R values, but it motivated simpler 1H‐FID‐MRSI approaches that allowed for much shorter T R values of a few hundred milliseconds by confining the sequence to water suppression and excitation pulses. 39 , 44 The T R‐shortening of this type of sequence is only limited by a possible compromise in water suppression quality, T 1‐weighting and spectral resolution (a side‐effect of reducing the FID sampling). Some implementations have even completely abandoned all suppression pulses and replaced these by retrospective nuisance removal. 45 In particular at UHF 1H‐FID‐MRSI overcomes critical limitations in SAR, chemical shift displacement error (CSDE), B 1 +‐inhomogeneity, T 2‐weighting, J‐evolution and coverage of cortical regions in comparison with traditional MRSI. On the other hand, 1H‐FID‐MRSI lacks high‐quality volume selection to reduce nuisance signals (e.g., extracranial lipids) and macromolecule signals are enhanced. While this makes accurate metabolite quantification challenging, it has enabled the high‐resolution mapping of macromolecules. 6 , 46 , 47 , 48 Since then, FID‐MRSI acquisitions with short T R values (~60 to 600 ms) have become an integral part of many UHF 1H‐MRSI sequences at 7 T (References 41, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53) and 9.4 T (References 5, 40, 54, 55, 56, 57) (Figure 2) and an increasing number of 3 T MRSI implementations. 51 , 54 , 58 FID‐MRSI is also the method of choice for 31P‐MRSI 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 due to the fast T 2 relaxation of most 31P‐MRS signals, and for 2H‐MRSI 59 due to the absence of water and fat suppression modules. FID‐MRSI applications are so far limited mostly to the human brain but also for the investigation of skeletal muscles and 31P‐MRSI, 30 , 42 where volume pre‐selection is secondary. First clinical examples have been demonstrated in patients with brain tumors, 7 , 31 , 49 multiple sclerosis 7 , 50 , 60 and mild cognitive impairment. 61 , 62
In principle, also SE‐MRSI sequences can be used with shorter T R, but this is uncommon, since SSFP‐MRSI is more efficient and especially the high bandwidth and SAR demands of refocusing pulses tailored for UHF (e.g., adiabatic RF pulses in particular) are a major constraint.
While the acquisition time saving associated with T R reduction does not match that of common SSE approaches, the achievable acceleration factors are nevertheless good (~2‐ to 20‐fold) compared with typical undersampling techniques and come with only minor side effects (e.g., T 1‐weighting, possible FID truncation), while benefitting among other advantages from a slight boost in SNR per unit time (SNR/t). 39 Combinations with other acceleration methods, which all have the tendency to reduce SNR efficiency, are straightforward. Successful combinations have been shown with PI, 41 , 51 , 52 , 55 , 56 CS, 57 SSE 63 , 64 or several approaches at once to enable high‐resolution rapid whole‐brain MRSI 7 , 64 or dynamic 2D‐MRSI with high temporal resolution. 65
3. SPATIAL‐SPECTRAL ENCODING
Even higher accelerations can be achieved using SSE. The basic principle of SSE was introduced by Mansfield 3 in 1984, but early implementations were limited by gradient hardware imperfections. 66 , 67 It took decades until SSE developed into the robust metabolic imaging tool that it is today. 68 , 69 , 70 , 71
In contrast to phase‐encoded MRSI, where spatial and spectral encoding are strictly separated, SSE utilizes high‐slew‐rate gradient waveforms to sample spatial information (by sampling along k‐space trajectories) simultaneously with spectral information (by repeating the same trajectory a few hundred times per T R) (Figure S1). This is possible since the encoding of the spectral dimension (sampling period in ms) is a slow process compared with the encoding of spatial dimensions (sampling period in μs). SSE enables highly efficient and about 25 to 170 times faster MRSI scans than pure phase‐encoding. 72 The SNR/t is similar to that of conventional phase‐encoding, provided that the most efficient sampling (e.g., ramp sampling for EPSI) is used. 73 , 74
SSE can employ a variety of different Cartesian or non‐Cartesian trajectories that have very different gradient requirements and k‐space densities (Figure 3), with EPSI 75 and spiral‐based MRSI 76 being the most prominent examples. However, gradient hardware limitations and the need for higher spectral bandwidth (SBW)/spatial resolution at higher B 0, 73 , 77 , 78 as well as the desire to reduce voxel bleeding by an improved spatial response function (SRF) (i.e., to mitigate extracranial lipid artifacts), have made alternative SSE strategies increasingly attractive 79 , 80 , 81 , 82 Overall, the use of SSE becomes challenging at UHF (i.e., the SNR efficiency suffers) since the maximum time permitted for one trajectory repetition (i.e., spectral dwelltime) is inverse proportional to the SBW, and trajectory repetitions become challenging for the higher spatial resolutions at UHF (Figure 4). Although temporal interleaving can somewhat alleviate this otherwise hard limit at the cost of measurement speed, the number of temporal interleaves is limited to three or less for 1H‐MRSI, while it is freely adjustable for multi‐nuclear MRSI. 7 , 30 , 63 , 83 The reason is that for more than three temporal interleaves high unsuppressed water signal lead to spectral aliasing artifacts in the spectral range of interest (e.g., between water and lipid signals), the intensity of which scales with temporal instabilities between temporal interleaves and cannot be easily removed. 15 A completely different approach is reduction of acquisition time using partition of the signal decay in spectroscopic imaging (RAPID‐SI), 84 which is similar to an approach shown earlier by Cao et al for hyperpolarized 13C‐MRSI. 85 Both speed up MRSI acquisition along a phase‐encoding direction approximately 2‐ to 16‐fold by separating the acquired FID into equidistant fractions via blipped phase‐encoding gradients (this resamples jumping from one k‐space point to the next during FID readout rather than moving along a continuous trajectory).
Since EPSI is in principle equivalent to multi‐echo MRI with extremely short echo spacing (i.e., spectral dwelltime in MRSI), Dixon‐based spectral separation can be considered an extreme case of SSE with very few (i.e., originally two), sometimes non‐equidistantly distributed, echoes. To quantify a few well‐separated spectral resonances (e.g., water and fat 87 , 88 or four resonances in 13C‐MRSI 89 ), only a few echoes (i.e., EPSI lines or any other SSE trajectories) must be acquired. The basic idea is to exploit the difference in precession frequency between two or multiple resonances. For instance, to separate fat and water, two images with slightly different T E values are acquired. For the first image the T E is adjusted to show fat and water signals in phase, while the T E for the second image is adjusted by a few milliseconds to have fat and water signals out of phase. Adding the two images leads to a water image and subtracting the two images to a fat image. The Dixon method and the related iterative decomposition of water and fat with echo asymmetry and least‐squares estimation (IDEAL) can be extended to the separation of multiple resonances by using multiple spin or gradient echoes. IDEAL has been combined with spiral and echo planar imaging (EPI) readouts as well as k‐t undersampling approaches for hyperpolarized 13C‐MRSI 89 , 90 , 91 , 92 , 93 (the processing pipeline is shown in Figure 5) and 129Xe‐MRSI. 94
Apart from the maximum possible acceleration factor and SNR efficiency, a main criterion for choosing the right SSE technique is the limitations imposed by the available gradient system. The targeted spatial resolutions are much lower in MRSI than in MRI. Hence, maximum gradient amplitudes do not impose any limitations, but a high gradient slew rate is critical to allow gradient trajectories to remain short and be repeated rapidly. This is necessary to cover the target spectral range (increasing with B 0) and traverse a sufficiently large k‐space (otherwise limiting spatial resolution). 63 The extent to which different SSE trajectories are susceptible to or induce gradient imperfections varies substantially. Generally, k‐space trajectory errors are more problematic for spirals, rosettes and radial EPSI than for other SSE alternatives 67 , 86 , 95 , 96 (see below and Table 1), but these deviations between actual and real trajectories can be measured and considered during MRSI reconstruction. 67
TABLE 1.
Category | Method | Pros | Cons | Application |
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Short‐T R/T E | SSFP |
‐ highest SNR/t gain ‐ moderate acceleration |
‐ T 1/T 2‐weighting ‐ low spectral resolution ‐ poor water and lipid suppression in 1H‐MRSI ‐ banding artifacts/B 0 sensitive |
‐ metabolites with long T 2 and short T 1 ‐ hyperpol. 13C MRSI/MRI ‐ 1H‐MRSI possible but restricted to major singlets ‐ preferably <7 T |
Turbo‐spin‐echo | ‐ low acceleration |
‐ low spectral resolution ‐ T 2‐weighting (in k‐space) ‐ ΔB 1 + sensitive |
‐ metabolites with long T 2 ‐ singlets in 1H MRSI ‐ preferably <3 T |
|
FID‐MRSI |
‐ SNR/t gain ‐ moderate acceleration ‐ high SNR ‐ J‐coupled metabolites in phase ‐ ΔB 1 + insensitive ‐ low SAR ‐ low CSDE |
‐ T 1‐weighting ‐ trade‐off between speed (T R) and spectral resolution ‐ moderate lipid suppression in 1H‐MRSI |
‐ short T 2/J‐coupled metabolites ‐ ultra‐high field ‐ 13C/31P/1H‐MRSI ‐ preferably >1.5 T |
|
Cartesian SSE | EPSI |
‐ high acceleration ‐ inherently constant k‐space weighting |
‐ some SNR/t loss ‐ limited SBW/spatial resolution ‐ gradient demanding |
‐ 13C/31P/1H‐MRSI ‐ preferably <7 T |
Non‐Cartesian SSE | Spirals |
‐ highest acceleration ‐ any k‐space weighting possible |
‐ some SNR/t loss ‐ limited SBW/spatial resolution ‐ gradient demanding |
‐ 13C/31P/1H‐MRSI ‐ preferably <7 T |
CRTs |
‐ high acceleration ‐ inherent k‐space weighting (optimization possible) |
‐ some SNR/t loss ‐ limited SBW/spatial resolution ‐ gradient demanding |
‐ 13C/31P/1H‐MRSI ‐ preferably ≥3 T |
|
Rosettes |
‐ can be tailored for either high speed or low gradient stress ‐ inherently weighted k‐space (optimization possible) |
‐ some SNR/t loss ‐ moderate SBW/spatial resolution limitation |
‐ 13C/31P/1H‐MRSI ‐ preferably ≥7 T |
|
Radial EPSI |
‐ high acceleration ‐ inherent k‐space weighting (fixed) |
‐ some SNR/t loss ‐ limited SBW/spatial resolution ‐ gradient demanding |
‐ 13C/31P/1H‐MRSI ‐ preferably <7 T |
|
Coherent k‐space undersampling | SENSE |
‐ no gradient demands ‐ low acceleration |
‐ some SNR/t loss ‐ needs multi‐channel receive coils ‐ needs explicit sensitivity maps ‐ spatial aliasing ‐ motion sensitive |
‐ preferably 1H‐MRSI ‐ 13C/31P‐MRSI possible, but difficult to obtain reliable sensitivity maps ‐ preferably ≥3 T/better at UHF |
GRAPPA |
‐ no gradient demands ‐ interleaving to reduce motion sensitivity ‐ low acceleration |
‐ some SNR/t loss ‐ needs multi‐channel receive coils ‐ spatial aliasing |
‐ preferably 1H‐MRSI ‐ 13C/31P‐MRSI possible ‐ preferably ≥3 T/better at UHF |
|
CAIPIRINHA |
‐ no gradient demands ‐ better control of aliasing ‐ interleaving to reduce motion sensitivity ‐ low acceleration |
‐ some SNR/t loss ‐ needs multi‐channel receive coils ‐ spatial aliasing |
‐ preferably 1H‐MRSI ‐ 13C/31P‐MRSI possible ‐ preferably ≥3 T/better at UHF |
|
Multi‐slice excitation | Multi‐band/SMS |
‐ accelerate also in slice direction ‐ low acceleration |
‐ some SNR/t loss ‐ needs multi‐channel receive coils ‐ increased SAR/B 1 + ‐ spatial aliasing |
‐ preferably 1H‐MRSI, but 13C/31P‐MRSI possible ‐ better at UHF |
Incoherent k‐space undersampling | CS |
‐ SNR/t gain through regularization ‐ moderate acceleration |
‐ sparse data (representation) required ‐ minimum SNR required to work robustly |
‐ in spectral domain only for long‐T E 1H‐MRSI or 13C/31P‐MRSI |
Prior knowledge based | SLIM/SLOOP/SLAM |
‐ SNR/t gain through regularization and spatial averaging ‐ high acceleration |
‐ sensitive to bias fields such as B 0 inhomogeneity |
‐ 31P‐MRS(I) ‐ potentially hyperpol. 13C‐MRS(I) ‐ spectra from multiple arbitrarily shaped compartments instead of metabolite maps (except for GSLIM) |
SPICE |
‐ SNR/t gain through regularization ‐ high acceleration |
‐ requires assumptions about spatial and spectral priors; nuisance removal challenging ‐ may lead to spatial averaging ‐ may lead to spectral information loss |
‐ preferably sparse well resolved spectra (13C, 31P), but 1H‐MRSI possible | |
Super‐resolution reconstruction | ‐ resolution increase via pure post‐processing |
‐ requires assumptions about spatial priors ‐ no true spatial resolution gain—only smoother appearance of metabolite maps |
all | |
Spectral‐spatial excitation & IDEAL | ‐ replaces time‐consuming spectral encoding by conventional MRI readout | ‐ requires good spectral separation and ΔB 0 homogeneity | ‐ 13C/31P‐MRSI; good spectral separation required |
Abbreviation: ΔB 1 +—transmit field inhomogeneity.
3.1. Cartesian SSE
Cartesian SSE techniques acquire one spatial dimension and the spectral dimension simultaneously in a single readout via a series of periodically inverted readout gradients. Each semi‐period encodes one line in k‐space and the progression of gradient pulses encodes the spectral dimension. Symmetric‐EPSI and flyback‐EPSI are most commonly used (Figure S1).
3.1.1. EPSI
The original EPSI technique, also known as symmetric EPSI or proton EPSI (PEPSI), uses a series of alternating positive and negative trapezoidal gradients to produce a zig‐zag trajectory in k x‐t space. 3 Ideally, the acquired k x‐t data can be sorted into a matrix after phase correction of the negative echo data and reconstructed using Fourier transform. In practice, the positive and negative echo data are not equivalent due to asymmetries in gradient switching and eddy currents, and direct Fourier transform reconstruction of combined positive and negative echoes would lead to ghosting artifacts in the spectral domain. One way to avoid spectral ghosting is to perform a separate Fourier transform for positive and negative echoes followed by combination after phase correction, at the expense of halving the SBW. 75 If data are acquired during the gradient ramps, there is only a small penalty in SNR/t compared with phase‐encoded MRSI, despite the significant acceleration (e.g., 32‐fold). 73 , 74 Figure 6 shows PEPSI results in the human brain. Alternatively, shift correction between positive and negative echo data can be performed using an interlaced Fourier transform approach to exploit the full SBW. 97 Center‐out EPSI readout, where the upper half of k‐space is acquired during the first segment and the lower half of k‐space during the second segment, has also been proposed to passively prevent formation of ghosting artifacts and optimize SBW, by computing the shift correction between positive and negative echo data directly from the differences between upper‐half and lower‐half k‐space data. 98
EPSI implementations have been shown for various pre‐localization schemes including PRESS, 79 semi‐LASER (localization by adiabatic selective refocusing), 78 whole slice with OVS 99 and slab‐selection. 100
MRSI techniques that require multiple repetitions with different parameter settings benefit particularly from EPSI. This includes diffusion‐weighted MRSI, the first implementation of which was shown in 1995, 101 followed by more robust versions recently, 102 with some even enabling diffusion tensor imaging of metabolites. 103 Combining MRSI with encoding of two frequency dimensions simultaneously (e.g., J‐resolved or correlation spectroscopy) is even more time consuming and has therefore been an active field of research. Correlated MRS (COSY)‐EPSI has been predominantly used to map muscle metabolism, 104 , 105 , 106 , 107 , 108 while J‐resolved EPSI has been applied to prostate 109 and investigations in the human brain. 110 , 111 , 112 , 113 , 114 Spectrally edited MRSI requires subtraction of one spectrum from another, which doubles the scan time and prohibits short T R, and hence can be efficiently accelerated by EPSI. 115 Other less common applications include rapid temperature 116 and metabolite T 2 mapping. 117
Unquestionably, the most common application of EPSI is to enable time‐efficient whole‐brain MRSI, 100 which has reached a high level of sophistication and automation after many optimization steps. 118 , 119 It is used in clinical investigations for various brain disorders such as brain tumors, 120 , 121 , 122 , 123 amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, 124 schizophrenia 125 or dyslexia. 126 Applications outside the brain, including MRSI of the breast, 127 , 128 liver 129 and calf muscle, 130 have been proposed as well.
3.1.2. Flyback‐EPSI and more
To reduce SBW limitations, the flyback‐EPSI technique uses only the positive gradient part for spatial encoding and short gradient pulses with maximum slew rate for refocusing. The flyback‐EPSI readout also mitigates eddy current effects and ghosting significantly, but at the loss of SNR due to gaps in data acquisition. 131 Other less common approaches to increase the SBW are temporal interleaving and repeating the acquisition with reversed readout gradients, which double both the SBW and the scan time. 79 , 132 Another solution that doubles the SBW of EPSI without prolonging the scan time is coherent k‐t space EPSI. 82 , 133 Finally, multi‐shot EPSI was proposed, which samples not only a single k‐space line along k x, but a complete echo‐planar trajectory to cover a large fraction of the k x‐k y plane with gaps in k y and time being filled up by the following shots, but this caused significant spectral aliasing artifacts and imposes SBW limitations. 134 Flyback‐EPSI has been applied clinically in brain tumors, 135 , 136 prostate cancer 137 and multi‐nuclear MRSI (i.e., hyperpolarized 13C‐MRSI 138 and 31P‐MRSI 139 of the calf muscle).
3.2. Non‐Cartesian SSE
Non‐Cartesian SSE techniques accelerate in two k‐space dimensions and the spectral dimension simultaneously with only a few exceptions. 140 The most prominent examples are spirals, 76 concentric ring trajectories (CRTs), 80 rosettes 81 and radial EPSI. 96 The most common reconstruction approach for non‐Cartesian trajectories is to perform a non‐uniform fast Fourier transform (NUFFT) in the spatial domain and conventional fast Fourier transform (FFT) along the temporal domain.
3.2.1. Spirals
Historically, the first non‐Cartesian SSE k‐space trajectory was the spiral. 76 This was motivated by the early application of spirals in MRI and the fact that nominally constant‐density spirals are the most efficient trajectories, offering the best acquisition time and SBW benefit while sacrificing the least SNR, but they are also more susceptible to gradient infidelities than other SSE techniques, 86 which requires corrections. 67 For small matrix sizes and lower SBW (e.g at 1.5 T), spirals can acquire spectroscopic data in a single shot, but single‐shot approaches are usually not practical due to SBW limitations imposed by the time required to complete the spiral trajectory. In practice, spiral MRSI is, therefore achieved via spectral (Figure 7A) and spatial interleaves (Figure 7B) (i.e., acquiring only a fraction of the k‐space or FID, respectively, per T R). 141
With these properties, spirals are ideal for application in hyperpolarized 13C studies, where speed is critical to minimize T 1 relaxation‐related SNR losses, 37 , 143 , 144 , 145 , 146 , 147 but also more recently in dynamic 31P‐MRSI in muscles, 30 , 148 where a high temporal resolution is essential. Spiral SSE is also playing an increasingly important role in 1H‐MRSI of the brain 71 , 149 , 150 , 151 , 152 , 153 , 154 , 155 , 156 , 157 , 158 and prostate 141 , 159 , 160 to reach clinically attractive scan times. At 3 T fully scanner‐integrated solutions for spiral MRSI 154 , 156 have recently facilitated a stronger clinical use for brain tumor, 150 , 152 , 153 neurodegenerative 151 , 161 and demyelinating disorders, 161 as well as psychiatric research. 149 , 163
Since the evolution of 1H‐MRSI towards whole‐brain coverage 76 , 164 there is an increased need for mitigation of extra‐cranial lipid bleeding artifacts. This has led to the development of variable‐density spirals, which improve the SRF during the acquisition in an SNR‐efficient manner without the need for inefficient post‐processing k‐space filters. 142 , 165 , 166 , 167 , 168 This is frequently augmented by preprocessing to remove (lipid) artifacts even further. 166 , 167 , 168 , 169 , 170
However, due to limitations imposed by common whole‐body gradients the efficiency of spirals suffers with increasing spatial resolution and SBW, which is typical for high‐field MRSI. 5 , 41 For SSE the same trajectory must be repeated several hundred times to sample an FID, but gradient slew rate limitations do not allow return to the k‐space center after each spiral sufficiently fast. All data acquired during such gradient rewinders (i.e., similar to flyback‐EPSI gradients) are unused, which lowers the SNR. 16 This makes “closed loop”‐trajectories without such a deadtime attractive for SSE. In‐out spirals feature such self‐rewinding properties, but they are only efficient for strong animal gradient systems, 171 , 172 not for whole‐body systems, where additional limitations on maximum SBW would be imposed.
3.2.2. Concentric rings
These problems have triggered the development of inherently closed SSE trajectories without deadtimes, which are not merely translations of existing MRI trajectories, but rather tailored for the needs of MRSI. CRTs are the best example of this. They were originally proposed for hyperpolarized 13C‐MRSI, 80 , 86 but were rapidly adapted for 1H‐MRSI with high spatial resolution and SBW. 7 , 63 , 64 , 173 , 174 , 175 , 176 Via CRTs an N × N matrix resulting from a k N × k N k‐space is covered by k N/2 equidistant rings, which makes CRT‐based SSE exactly twice as fast as EPSI (i.e., it requires k N lines). For equidistant CRTs the acquired k‐space is inherently 1/k r weighted, but the weighting can be optimized (e.g Hanning weighting) at the expense of reduced acceleration. 63 , 173 The constant‐angular‐velocity properties of CRTs make them robust to gradient timing imperfections and eddy current delays, 86 and PI reconstruction is considerably simplified. 64 A unique feature of CRTs is that scan time/SNR efficiency can be further improved by acquiring a variable number of temporal interleaves (one temporal interleave/circumnavigation is sufficient in the k‐space center, while in the k‐space periphery gradient slew rate limits demand two or three temporal interleaves). 7 This makes high‐resolution whole‐brain 1H‐MRSI clinically feasible even at UHF (Figure 8).
3.2.3. Rosettes
Rosettes are the other class of closed non‐Cartesian SSE trajectories. 81 , 177 , 178 , 179 A main feature of rosettes is their design flexibility, which allows tailoring of the trajectories for desirable features such as speed, low‐gradient performance, repeated sampling of the k‐space center or adapting the k‐space weighting. Depending on the parameter settings, rosettes can become identical to rings, in‐out spirals or radial EPSI. 179 The ability to tailor rosette trajectories for low‐gradient performance and reduced acoustic noise could make them useful in the regime of very high SBW/spatial resolution. MRI results indicate that rosettes can be more incoherently undersampled than other non‐Cartesian trajectories, which may be a benefit for CS reconstruction. 180
3.2.4. Radial EPSI
Finally, MRSI based on radial EPSI (again originally proposed for hyperpolarized 13C‐MRSI 96 ) is a fairly young field. Only recently have preliminary experimental reports in 1H‐MRSI and 31P‐MRSI been published. 181 , 182 Like spirals, radial EPSI trajectories return to the k‐space center, which offers in principle the possibility for self‐navigation (i.e., correction by phase/magnitude alignment of consecutive trajectories). This can be used to reduce instabilities (e.g., motion) between different k‐space interleaves (Figure S2), 182 , 183 while other SSE techniques (e.g., EPSI) require interleaved navigators for this. 184
4. UNDERSAMPLED MRSI
k‐space undersampling is the third major acceleration method for MRSI. For an unambiguous signal allocation by gradient encoding, the distance between all adjacent k‐space points must be less than 1/object size (i.e., Nyquist criterion). Conventional phase‐encoded MRSI at the Nyquist rate (i.e., full k‐space sampling) is very time consuming. In undersampled MRSI, fewer k‐space points are acquired below the Nyquist rate to speed up the acquisition using coherent and incoherent undersampling patterns (Figure 9). Complementary information other than gradient encoding, which includes sensitivity maps, spatial‐spectral sparsity or prior knowledge, is employed to reconstruct the undersampled data sets without aliasing.
4.1. Parallel imaging
A common group of methods for reconstruction of k‐space undersampled MRI data is PI. 185 , 186 , 187 In classic implementations, k‐space undersampling is performed in a uniformly equidistant manner across k‐space (i.e., regular pattern), yielding a larger distance between sampled k‐space points. This in turn leads to a field‐of‐view reduction to below the dimensions of the object and thus to aliasing (folding) of image information. To reconstruct the missing k‐space points or to unfold the aliased image additional information on the spatial signal origin is derived from sensitivity profiles of receive coil arrays. There are two major reconstruction approaches in PI that have found widespread application: (i) sensitivity encoding (SENSE) 187 and (ii) generalized autocalibrating partially parallel acquisition (GRAPPA). 186 SENSE solves the image reconstruction problem in the image domain by unfolding the aliased images, and requires explicit sensitivity maps of each coil element to form an overdetermined system of linear equations. Both the k‐space encoding trajectory and receiver coil sensitivity patterns are input to the algorithm. GRAPPA solves the same problem in k‐space domain, and typically only undersamples the outer parts of the k‐space to derive a reconstruction kernel that predicts the missing k‐space points from the central fully sampled part of k‐space. Both principles are widely applied in MRI and have been demonstrated for 1H‐MRSI as well. PI is generally also compatible with SSE and incoherent k‐space undersampling (see Section 5).
4.1.1. SENSE
Sensitivity‐encoded 1H‐MRSI was introduced shortly after the invention of SENSE‐MRI in 2001 and was combined with different localization schemes such as PRESS, 188 slice‐selective adiabatic SE localization, 189 SE‐ or FID‐MRSI with OVS 190 , 191 , 192 , 193 or FID‐MRSI without OVS. 55 This pre‐localization was necessary because the original SENSE‐MRSI implementation suffered from residual lipid aliasing artifacts introduced by imperfections of the sensitivity maps and insufficient control of the SRF. The ESPIRIT approach 55 , 192 , 194 , 195 to derive reliable sensitivity maps enhanced the robustness and applicability of SENSE‐MRSI since it is free of residual bias fields or image contrasts, is compatible with transceiver arrays and is free of interpolation errors towards the edge of the object of interest. Several methods to further reduce lipid aliasing were presented, and include direct optimization of the SRF, overdiscrete or superresolution reconstruction and retrospective lipid removal. 55 , 193 , 196 , 197 , 198 SENSE was also utilized for an overdiscrete B 0‐correction that enhances the SNR of MRSI data. 55 , 192 Figure 10 illustrates controls of SRF, resulting lipid artifacts, and SNR increase. SENSE‐MRSI was combined with alternative acceleration methods such as elliptical k‐space sampling, 199 multi‐echo MRSI, 20 , 21 EPSI, 190 , 191 , 200 spiral MRSI, 142 CS, 57 low‐rank reconstruction 58 and partial Fourier imaging. 201 SENSE‐MRSI was also used to accelerate the acquisition of unsuppressed water maps for internal water referencing 202 and a phantom‐based external referencing for quantitative SENSE‐MRSI compatible with receive arrays. 203 SENSE‐MRSI was applied to clinical studies in brain tumor patients, 196 , 204 and shortly after its introduction SENSE‐MRSI was also implemented as a commercial option by a major vendor and is utilized in clinical diagnostics today on a regular basis. SENSE‐MRSI is not easily applicable to 31P‐, 13C‐ and 2H‐MRSI due to the lack of a high‐SNR reference standard (e.g., water in 1H‐MRI/MRSI) that allows for generation of high‐quality sensitivity maps. Nevertheless, applications of SENSE to hyperpolarized 13C‐MRSI have been demonstrated 201 , 205 sensitivity maps have been derived either by self‐calibration exploiting the high SNR of in vivo pyruvate and a fully sampled k‐space center 205 or by using an oil phantom. 201 , 206
4.1.2. GRAPPA
The earliest description of GRAPPA‐accelerated 1H‐MRSI stems from 2006. 207 Implementations have been demonstrated that relied on PRESS pre‐localization, 204 , 207 slice‐selective or volumetric SE‐ 65 , 208 and FID‐MRSI. 52 , 56 , 64 , 209 To reduce lipid aliasing in SE‐ or FID‐MRSI, lipid suppression by either OVS or double inversion recovery were presented, 190 , 209 but both options limit the acquisition speed by demanding higher T R values due to SAR. Controlled aliasing in parallel imaging results in higher acceleration (CAIPIRINHA)‐MRSI encoding in combination with retrospective lipid removal yielded significantly better metabolite maps. 52 , 167 Finally, training neural networks for GRAPPA reconstruction on MRI data 56 or acquiring the reference data for GRAPPA reconstruction interleaved 64 reduced lipid aliasing to a negligible level. GRAPPA‐MRSI was combined with alternative acceleration methods such as elliptical k‐space sampling, 210 EPSI, 65 , 208 , 211 CRT, 64 and spirals. 212 Recently, through‐time/through‐k‐space GRAPPA was presented, which simultaneously yields an unsuppressed water reference scan. 64 The impact of GRAPPA‐accelerated EPSI on diagnostic sensitivity in traumatic brain injury patients was investigated and identical metabolic changes were found. 211 GRAPPA is generally compatible with non‐proton MRSI, but preliminary 31P‐MRSI implementations were limited by low SNR. 213 A simultaneous auto‐calibrating and k‐space estimation (SAKE) variant was applied to hyperpolarized 13C‐MRSI. 195 , 214 , 215
Early implementations of SENSE‐MRSI and GRAPPA‐MRSI have been compared, and favorable results have been obtained for conventional GRAPPA due to SNR advantages and lower lipid aliasing. 204 SENSE‐MRSI was also compared against elliptical k‐space shuttering and EPSI, and it was concluded that all three methods are applicable to clinical diagnostics of brain tumors with individual advantages and disadvantages. 216 However, the full potentials of neither SENSE nor GRAPPA have been exploited in these studies, and a more thorough comparison of state‐of‐the‐art SENSE and GRAPPA reconstruction algorithms and alternative sampling schemes has yet to be performed.
4.2. Multi‐band/simultaneous multi‐slice
Another possibility to exploit the sensitivity profiles of multi‐channel receive coils for MRI acceleration is simultaneous multi‐slice (SMS) imaging. 217 SMS makes efficient use of simultaneous excitation of several slices by one multi‐band RF pulse 218 in combination with controlled aliasing 219 and reconstructs the individual slices using the PI concept (Figure 11). The achievable acceleration factors are fairly low (~2 to 4) and can therefore only be used as an add‐on to either undersampling 52 or SSE techniques, 82 , 220 as shown for preliminary 1H‐MRSI 82 , 220 studies. The excitation of multiple slices via SMS should be not confused with multi‐band spectral‐spatial excitation (ie exciting different frequency bands simultaneously), which has been employed for rapid 13C‐MRSI. 38 , 92 , 221 , 222
4.3. Compressed sensing
CS‐MRI relies on a combination of non‐uniform k‐space undersampling and the assumption of spatial and/or spectral sparsity. 223 Spatial or spectral sparsity means that there are relatively few significant voxels or spectral points with non‐zero values. During the image reconstruction, a wavelet and/or other compression transformation such as total variation or principal component analysis is performed to yield a sparse representation of the data similar to data compression in JPEG. k‐space undersampling must be incoherent to yield a noise‐like distribution of nuisance signals, which can be removed by a non‐linear reconstruction algorithm that enforces sparsity in the transformation domain (e.g., wavelet space) and is consistent with the acquired data.
The first implementation of CS‐MRSI was demonstrated in 2008 with application in hyperpolarized 13C‐MRSI, 36 which still yields the majority of publications utilizing this MRSI acceleration method. 35 , 36 , 38 , 85 , 224 , 225 , 226 , 227 , 228 , 229 , 230 , 231 CS is ideal for hyperpolarized 13C‐MRSI due to its intrinsic spectral sparsity, which allows for additional acceleration along the spectral dimension. CS can be combined with SSE to further accelerate the metabolic imaging readout for hyperpolarized 13C‐MRSI to reach sufficient coverage and resolution in the presence of strict time limits, 35 , 36 , 85 , 228 , 231 and was demonstrated for flyback‐EPSI, a custom designed incoherent spatial‐spectral undersampling scheme and EPI with frequency selective excitation. Other acceleration methods that have been combined with CS for hyperpolarized 13C‐MRSI are multi‐band encoding, 38 multi‐point Dixon encoding 227 , 230 and balanced SSFP. 229 Applications of CS in 13C‐hyperpolarization studies have focused mainly on cancer imaging. 35 , 224 , 225 , 226
Similarly, 31P‐MRSI is well suited for this acceleration approach due to well separated spectral lines and the absence of large nuisance signals. The first CS 31P‐MRSI implementation was shown in 2012 and was based on simulated 2D‐MRSI data. 232 An actual 2D implementation for human brain 31P‐MRSI was shown in 2017. 148 , 233 , 234 CS has been recently combined with flyback‐EPSI for highly accelerated 31P‐MRSI, 62 and two distinct reconstruction schemes—L1‐norm minimization and low‐rank Hankel matrix completion—have been compared. 138
The application of CS to 1H‐MRSI is complicated due to large water and lipid nuisance signals, which can mislead the reconstruction algorithm to exclude the lower‐intensity metabolite peaks by misadjusted thresholding. In addition, 1H spectra are not sparse (short‐T E MRS in particular), making acceleration along the spectral dimension more challenging. The first CS 1H‐MRSI implementation was shown in 2009 in vitro 235 and 2012 in vivo via retrospective undersampling. 236 Several studies investigated the dependence of the SRF on the SNR and sampling pattern in CS‐accelerated 1H‐MRSI using phantom data. 237 , 238 , 239 In vivo applications of CS 1H‐MRSI were combined with either PRESS 142 , 236 , 240 , 241 or semi‐LASER 85 pre‐localization or slice‐selective 1H‐FID‐MRSI 57 , 58 (Figure 12). CS was used to further accelerate 3D J‐resolved EPSI for 1H‐MRSI prostate applications. 240 , 241 In addition the combination of CS with SENSE, 57 CS with SENSE and incoherently undersampled spiral trajectories 142 as well as CS and a low‐rank constrained reconstruction scheme have been demonstrated for 1H‐MRSI. 58
5. JOINT FORCES—COMBINING SSE, UNDERSAMPLING AND SHORT T R
Even though SSE by itself can provide up to two magnitudes of acceleration compared with pure phase encoding, this is often not sufficient for reaching the desired target temporal resolution 38 , 200 or volume coverage (e.g., whole brain) with sufficiently high spatial resolution. 64 , 208 , 211 In such cases, SSE techniques can be combined with PI, 64 , 80 , 190 , 208 , 211 CS 35 , 36 , 38 , 228 or a mixture of the two techniques. 142 Such undersampling can be performed in spatial (k x, k y), spectral (t) and dynamic (frame) dimensions. The possibility to undersample in multiple dimensions in an entangled fashion (e.g., both k‐space and time domain) is highly beneficial for reconstruction efficiency. 242 The high sparsity in the spectral dimension is particularly appealing for CS and can be efficiently exploited in conjunction with SSE by using a different k‐space undersampling for each FID point to introduce spectral incoherence (e.g., by adding random phase‐encoding blips). 142
5.1. Cartesian
EPSI techniques simultaneously encode one spatial dimension and the spectral dimension, but the other spatial dimensions are still acquired using conventional phase encoding, and thus the scan time increases proportionally. PI can be used to regularly undersample the phase‐encoding dimensions of EPSI and exploit differences in coil sensitivities to reconstruct unaliased spectroscopic images. 1D‐SENSE 191 and 1D‐GRAPPA 65 were employed to accelerate 2D‐EPSI in the brain twofold for an 8‐channel coil array and threefold for a 32‐channel array, resulting in acquisition times below 1 min for a 32 × 32 spatial matrix and T R of 2 s. Acceleration in PI is limited by noise amplification due to a reduced number of phase‐encoding points and instability in the inverse reconstruction produced by overlapping coil sensitivities (the so‐called g‐factor). Higher accelerations are feasible with the use of 2D undersampling for 3D imaging and a coil array with a large number of elements to enable 2D‐SENSE, which reduce the g‐factor. For example, 2D‐SENSE using a 32‐channel soccer ball head coil array enabled an acceleration factor of 2 × 2 for 3D‐PEPSI with no additional degradation in spatial‐spectral quality beyond the expected SNR decrease of sqrt(R), resulting in acquisition times of 2 min for a 32 × 32 × 8 spatial matrix (Figure S3). 190
An alternative approach to undersample the phase‐encoding dimensions of EPSI is CS, which can exploit the natural sparsity along the spectral dimension in long‐T E acquisitions or transform sparsity for short‐T E acquisitions. The application of typical sparsifying transforms, such as wavelets and principal component analysis, along the spectral dimension can lead to combined spatial‐spectral sparse representations of short‐T E data. For 2D‐EPSI, spatial‐spectral incoherent sampling can be achieved by using phase‐encoding blips, which result in a different k y‐undersampling pattern for each time point 95 (Figure 13). To increase the acceleration rate, CS can be combined with PI to enforce joint coil sensitivity sparsity in the reconstruction. SPARSE‐SENSE, which combines CS and SENSE, was applied to 2D‐PEPSI to achieve fourfold acceleration with significant improvements compared with standard SENSE. 243 CS was also applied to T E‐averaged EPSI of glutamate to compensate for the increased scan time required to acquire at multiple T E values. 244 CS is also a natural candidate for acceleration of J‐resolved MRSI, given the substantial correlations in the high‐dimensional data. CS with fourfold acceleration was demonstrated for 4D echo‐planar correlated spectroscopic imaging to reduce the scan time to 5 min. 245
5.2. Non‐Cartesian
It is well known from MRI that non‐Cartesian trajectories, such as those also used for radial EPSI, spirals and CRTs, can be more efficiently accelerated via PI than Cartesian trajectories, meaning that the g‐factor‐related SNR penalty is lower. 246 This is a consequence of the less structured aliasing artifacts that are obtained via non‐Cartesian sampling, which translates into more efficient reconstruction compared with Cartesian counterparts. 242 This has also been suggested experimentally for MRSI using spirals 212 , 247 and CRTs (non‐Cartesian k‐space undersampling and reconstruction approaches illustrated in Figure 14). 64 , 80 SMS, which exploits sensitivity profiles as well, can therefore also be more efficiently combined with non‐Cartesian SSE (e.g., CRTs). 220 Additionally, CS reconstruction benefits from variable‐density k‐space sampling, 223 which can be easily achieved via non‐Cartesian spatial encoding.
Despite this evidence, the number of reports that have combined non‐Cartesian SSE with undersampling is still limited compared with Cartesian SSE. This is partially related to the more complicated and often time‐consuming reconstructions (e.g., iterative). 246 , 248 With its excess SNR, hyperpolarized MRSI is a prime candidate to benefit from undersampled non‐Cartesian MRSI. On the other hand, there is a lack of good multi‐channel multi‐nuclear coils that would be necessary to perform PI efficiently for hyperpolarized 13C‐MRSI, leaving CS—in particular in the spectral domain—the only option for further acceleration. In fact, spectral aliasing due to undersampling may not necessarily have to be undone for hyperpolarized 13C‐MRSI as long as it does not cause major spectral overlap of important metabolite resonances. 249 In this context, it should be noted that spectral aliasing due to undersampling is more problematic for 1H‐MRSI data. Short‐T E MR spectra are far less sparse (i.e., many strongly overlapping resonances) and there can be strong contamination by large nuisance signals (i.e., unsuppressed water or extra‐cranial lipids). This is not a problem for 13C‐ or 31P‐MRSI. 148 , 234 Nevertheless, highly efficient combination of variable density spirals and an entangled SENSE and CS reconstruction has so far been shown only for 1H‐MRSI at 3 T using PRESS. 142 However, with an increasing number of better rapid non‐Cartesian reconstruction algorithms emerging for MRI, 250 the interest in undersampled non‐Cartesian SSE for 1H‐MRSI is increasing.
6. USING PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
A promising approach to improve the results of highly accelerated MRSI is the incorporation of spatial (e.g., from high‐resolution anatomical MRI) and spectral (e.g., spectral components and their relaxation times) prior knowledge as well as bias field maps (B 0 maps, B 1 + maps) to reconstruct data with incoherent k‐space undersampling. More recently, low‐rank reconstruction schemes were combined with corresponding prior knowledge. The following paragraphs review the evolution of acquisition and reconstruction approaches based on prior knowledge.
6.1. Spatial prior knowledge and bias field maps: SLIM, SLOOP and SLAM
The utilization of prior knowledge derived from high‐resolution anatomical images for reconstruction of MRSI data with substantial k‐space undersampling was suggested as early as 1988, when the concept of spectral localization by imaging (SLIM) 251 was introduced by Hu et al. The basic idea behind SLIM is to use a structural image to identify several compartments, each of which is assumed to be spatially uniform with regard to its metabolism. Hence, SLIM was originally used to derive spectra from a few arbitrarily shaped spatial compartments. For instance, a 1H‐MR image of a limb may show three regions containing muscle, fat and bone marrow. 251 In principle, only three phase encoding steps are required to reconstruct three spectra from these three compartments. Applications of SLIM were reported for 1H and 31P‐MRS of tissue samples, 252 perfused organs 253 and in vivo skeletal muscle. 251 , 254 In 1991 spectral localization with optimal pointspread function (SLOOP) as an improvement to SLIM was suggested, which minimizes contaminations from other compartments by optimizing the k‐space sampling scheme, 255 SLOOP was developed further to include additional prior knowledge on B 1 +, T 1 and sequence parameters to optimize the SNR for human application of 3D‐encoded 31P‐MRS in the human myocardium. 256 A further development step was the utilization of additional non‐linear gradients for the encoding of the SLOOP compartments. 257 In vivo 31P‐SLOOP was mainly performed to characterize human cardiac muscle metabolism. 257 , 258 , 259 , 260 , 261 , 262 , 263
SLIM developed into a metabolic imaging method, with the first report being the generalized series approach to MR spectroscopic imaging (GSLIM). 264 , 265 GSLIM allows for spatial variations inside the compartments (e.g., metabolite concentrations and B 0 inhomogeneity), which are estimated from the data itself; the ill‐posedness of the problem is dealt with by using regularization techniques. GSLIM and natural linewidth chemical shift imaging (NL‐CSI) compensate for the sensitivity of SLIM to B 0 inhomogeneity across the predefined compartments by incorporating prior knowledge from additional B 0 maps into the reconstruction. 266 , 267 Static and radiofrequency‐compensated SLIM (STARSLIM) even incorporates prior knowledge about B 0 and B 1 + inhomogeneity. 268 B 0‐adjusted and sensitivity‐encoded spectral localization by imaging (BASE‐SLIM) incorporated B 0 and sensitivity maps into the SLIM reconstruction. 269 Finally, spectroscopy with linear algebraic modeling (SLAM) 270 , 271 was introduced, which substitutes the compartments in SLIM by a set of coalesced MRSI voxels with the same concentrations. Similar to SLOOP, SLAM chooses an optimized set of the same number of low‐gradient k‐space vectors as final compartments to maximize SNR and to minimize signal bleeding. SLAM has been combined with SENSE. Initial applications are 31P‐MRS in human skeletal muscle and myocardium 271 and hyperpolarized 13C‐MRSI. 272 A recent review paper gives a more comprehensive overview of all derivatives of SLIM and its applications in brain MRSI. 273
An alternative reconstruction approach unrelated to SLIM incorporates B 0 inhomogeneity as an additional encoding process together with the use of anatomical prior knowledge in a regularization term 274 to improve MRSI reconstruction of undersampled data. Finally, the consideration of image prior knowledge as a direct constraint of the SRF along with B 0 inhomogeneity correction has also been demonstrated for SENSE‐MRSI to better control lipid artifacts. 275
6.2. Spatial‐spectral prior knowledge and low‐rank reconstruction: toward SPICE
In addition to spatial prior knowledge, spectral prior knowledge has been used to reconstruct accelerated MRSI data. The first reported use of spectral priors in MRSI reconstruction relates to B 0 inhomogeneity correction by reference deconvolution using a spectral line shape model reflecting the B 0 inhomogeneity distribution and aims at the improvement of the spectral linewidth. 276 , 277 , 278 Early spatial‐spectral modeling in MRSI reconstruction combined the conventional gradient encoding data consistency term with additional regularization terms considering a combined spectral and baseline model term as well as a total variation term 279 , 280 and considered B 0 inhomogeneity as an encoding mechanism. 281 Another spatial‐spectral reconstruction approach aimed at controlling lipid spread and combined the usual consistency term that minimizes the difference between the gradient encoding data model and the data with a regularization or penalty term that includes a spatial‐spectral lipid model. 167
Another important development step was the use of low‐rank approximation approaches in MRSI reconstruction, 58 , 168 , 282 , 283 , 284 , 285 the main idea of which is to remove basis vectors related to noise to yield higher‐SNR spectroscopic images. Following an initial application in denoising of MRSI data, 284 low‐rank filtering was integrated with B 0 inhomogeneity correction 283 and additional image prior knowledge on tissue type boundaries 282 for a more robust reconstruction of fully sampled Cartesian MRSI. Shortly afterwards, low‐rank approximation was combined with balanced‐SSFP or dynamic spiral hyperpolarized 13C‐MRSI with incoherent k‐space sampling 285 , 286 and 1H‐FID‐MRSI accelerated by short T R and a combined SENSE and CS acceleration. 58 Low‐rank reconstruction was also used together with a spatiotemporal lipid prior that assumes orthogonality of spatiotemporal metabolite versus lipid signals and applied to lipid‐unsuppressed dual‐density spiral 1H‐MRSI. 168
A recent approach to reach very high acceleration factors and SNR in MRSI is the combination of the idea of “spatiotemporal imaging with partially separable functions” 287 that separates temporal and spatial basis vectors with spectral prior knowledge and low‐rank approximation. The resulting MRSI acceleration method SPICE (spectroscopic imaging by exploiting spatiospectral correlation) 288 represents the high‐dimensional spectroscopic imaging data as a union or superposition of subspaces (Figure 15). In practice, four subspaces are used, including metabolites, lipids, water and macromolecules. 47 The premise of SPICE is that the existence of spatial and temporal correlations will result in a low‐dimensional representation given by the union of subspaces. Each subspace is represented using a low‐rank tensor, whose basis is estimated from training data given by a fully sampled high‐spectral‐resolution and low‐spatial‐resolution acquisition to capture spectral correlations (Figure S4). Once the basis sets have been determined, undersampled data acquired with high spatial and spectral resolution can be reconstructed by enforcing the pre‐computed union of subspaces model, which will remove aliasing artifacts and separate the spectroscopic imaging data into metabolites, lipids, water and macromolecules. The main advantage of SPICE is to learn an efficient model to represent spectroscopic images using training data, which goes beyond the handcrafted models used in CS and can enable access to higher spatial resolution and direct separation of nuisance signals. Recent implementations have eliminated the need for subject‐specific navigator data to facilitate practical application. 45 Initial applications were shown for 1H‐MRSI of the human brain. 289 , 290 Simultaneous readouts of SPICE‐accelerated 1H‐MRSI with QSM 291 and functional MRI 292 of the human brain have been demonstrated. Other applications include mapping of brain macromolecules 47 and dynamic 31P‐MRSI in skeletal muscle 293 and hyperpolarized 13C‐MRSI. 294 The development of using prior knowledge in image reconstruction from SLIM to SPICE is described in a recent book chapter. 295
6.3. Super‐resolution reconstruction
Another acceleration approach is the use of interpolation 296 to yield higher‐resolution metabolite maps from lower‐resolution MRSI data. The most simple approach is k‐space zero filling. 10 Alternatively, the SENSE reconstruction framework uses additional spatial information on coil sensitivity to yield super‐resolution MRSI data. 55 , 192 , 193 , 197 , 198 A recently presented sophisticated interpolation method is the patch‐based super‐resolution approach that uses image prior knowledge to enforce smooth transitions inside a tissue compartment and sharp tissue boundaries in interpolated metabolite images. It assumes the existence of image redundancy in the form of metabolically identical patches of voxels and thus compartments. It was applied to enhance 1H‐MRSI of multiple sclerosis 60 and glioma patients. 49 For hyperpolarized 13C‐MRSI super‐resolution reconstruction in the spatiotemporal dimension was proposed in combination with an alternative spatial encoding without the necessity for time‐varying SSE gradients. 297 , 298 , 299 Finally, deep learning in combination with semi‐synthetic training data is utilized to yield super‐resolution MRSI data. 300
6.4. Spectral‐spatial excitation
Finally, another common strategy to accelerate metabolic imaging is to use prior knowledge about the resonance frequency of spectrally well separated signals for frequency‐selective excitation. This is applied especially to hyperpolarized 13C‐MRI by combining spectral‐spatial pulses with fast MRI readouts 286 , 301 , 302 , 303 , 304 , 305 , 306 , 307 , 308 , 309 but has been shown also for 31P‐MRI. 310 , 311 Using a narrow‐band spectral‐spatial pulse to excite only a single metabolite resonance line makes the need for chemical shift encoding obsolete and enables conventional fast MRI readouts such as SSFP, echo‐planar or spiral MRI that can be further accelerated via coherent/incoherent undersampling. The application of spectral‐spatial pulses to different offset frequencies in successive MRI readouts enables fast hyperpolarized 13C‐MRI of multiple resonance lines and even dynamic readouts for all metabolites if applied in an interleaved manner.
7. SUMMARY AND OUTLOOK ON EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
In the long history of MRSI, time‐efficient data acquisition was quickly identified as one of the main obstacles to high‐spatial‐resolution whole‐organ metabolic mapping. Although a number of alternative approaches to SSE have been proposed, SSE will certainly remain the workhorse of fast MRSI encoding, especially for 1H‐MRSI at 3 T and hyperpolarized 13C‐MRSI. However, while whole‐brain MRSI today predominantly relies on different SSE strategies, it is increasingly challenged by other means of acceleration especially at UHF, where the increased SBW and spatial resolution demands have led to performance limitations for SSE with respect to speed and SNR efficiency. 63 , 86 These have complicated the use of purely SSE‐based MRSI on common whole‐body gradient systems, especially since the targeted spatial resolutions have gradually increased over time. 5 , 41 To make efficient use of the excess SNR available at UHF (e.g., by either shortening scans or increasing resolution) and to benefit from high‐resolution strategies to minimize intra‐voxel B 0 inhomogeneities, 312 , 313 , 314 it will become critical to not only adapt SSE strategies, but also combine them efficiently with other means of acceleration and reconstruction algorithms. This will allow the benefits of high fields to be fully exploited. 64 , 142 , 148 , 190 , 234 As the performance of k‐space undersampling increases (i.e., g‐factors improve with higher B 0) and short‐T R FID‐MRSI remains efficient (i.e., negligible SAR and CSDE at high B 0) while the efficiency of SSE (i.e., increasing SBW and spatial resolution demand for higher gradient slew rates) decrease with increasing B 0, we can expect to find an optimal balance between such combinations to slowly shift away from SSE alone to additional undersampling in the future. Depending on the application, such an efficient balance will include a reasonable compromise between short T R (increased relaxation weighting and possibly reduced spectral resolution), undersampling (increased lipid artifacts and motion sensitivity) and SSE (increased gradient imperfections and scanner drift). 184
The addition of spatial‐spectral prior knowledge in the reconstruction algorithm appears to be another promising way to circumvent these limits. 290 , 295 New reconstruction algorithms with more complex models have recently become feasible due to the constant increase in performance of computational hardware and software. However, critically questioning what kind of prior knowledge and how much regularization is truly justified to avoid bias remains an important concern. In this respect, it is also expected that deep‐learning‐based reconstruction, which has shown promising results for MRI/MRSI, 45 , 56 , 315 , 316 , 317 , 318 will play an increasingly important role in the near future with the potential to substantially speed up the time‐demanding reconstruction process of large multi‐channel whole‐brain MRSI datasets.
Another important step in the dissemination of fast MRSI techniques will therefore also be the progress in rapid automated spectral analysis tools tailored for whole‐brain MRSI. 319 A number of well‐established and freely available MRSI processing pipelines already exist for application studies (e.g., MIDAS package for whole‐brain EPSI+GRAPPA; a comprehensive list of open‐source MRSI processing software is provided in the appendix). However, by no means all MRSI acceleration and reconstruction approaches described herein are available as user friendly freeware tools and hence are not yet ready for larger application studies. We anticipate that it is just a matter of time for a larger number of open‐source MRSI packages and full scanner integration of advanced MRSI methods to become available. To accelerate this process the developer community is encouraged to make MRSI sequences, reconstruction pipelines, and processing and visualization tools freely available to the scientific community. A more widespread dissemination of state‐of‐the art MRSI methodology is also needed for cross‐validation of different approaches.
Although several attempts to compare different MRSI acceleration strategies—mostly via simulations rather than experimental validation—are documented, 74 , 86 , 216 , 320 , 321 , 322 , 323 a comprehensive comparison of all major SSE trajectories and undersampling techniques is not straightforward and has so far not been performed.
Considering the different and frequently hardware‐specific artifact behavior of different encoding approaches, simulations alone can only give rough guidelines. In addition, the choice of specific reconstruction pipelines and parameters have a major influence on the resulting data quality and novel forms of reconstruction (e.g., based on neuronal networks or comprehensive low‐rank models) may shift advantages/disadvantages in favor of currently more artifact‐prone, but otherwise more efficient, acquisition schemes. Hence only a qualitative comparison of the major categories of MRSI acceleration methods is provided in Table 1. It includes important considerations such as acceleration factor, SNR efficiency, typical artifacts and limitations, and suggests typical applications for each method. It is important to mention that the maximum possible acceleration factors that a particular acceleration method can achieve (Table 1) cannot be fully exploited in the case of SNR limitations. Another important factor to consider is the SRF that describes the source of the signal displayed in a given voxel. In particular, non‐Cartesian k‐space sampling and incoherent k‐space undersampling easily allow tailoring of the k‐space sampling density pattern (compare Table 1) and thus shaping of the SRF already during the acquisition. This allows trading the effective spatial resolution against higher SNR and better nuisance signal suppression (i.e., lipids in 1H‐MRSI). SRF optimization is still possible during the reconstruction, but comes at the cost of SNR efficiency.
In line with the approach taken herein, a recent consensus effort on 1H‐MRSI of the human brain 324 also includes only qualitative guidelines on the application‐dependent choice of MRSI sequence parameters and describes minimal standards for a wide range of influence factors including calibration, data acquisition, quantification and visualization. This is in contrast to a recent consensus on the standardized use of semi‐LASER for clinical single‐voxel MRS at 3 T, where the benefits over PRESS are unquestionable. 325 For MRSI, currently well‐established Cartesian SSE methods with standard k‐space undersampling and multi‐slice/3D options are strongly encouraged for clinical application. 324 However, this is certainly only the most practical short‐term solution, since multi‐vendor scanner integration is already available for these methods, which is critical for clinical acceptance. The application of different encoding strategies on standardized MRSI phantoms or the same group of people in multi‐center trials is needed to provide valuable experimental evidence that will help to come up with a true consensus on which MRSI acceleration methods should be implemented by manufacturers for future clinical use.
The development of methods with both time‐efficient acquisition and reconstruction is, therefore, still ongoing and equally important for enabling clinical implementation of high‐resolution whole‐brain MRSI (or large‐organ coverage), and possibly time‐resolved MRSI such as for hyperpolarized and functional MRSI.
FUNDING INFORMATION
The preparation of this manuscript was supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)(projects KLI 718 and P 30701), the ERC starting grant 679927 / SYNAPLAST MR, Horizon 2020 ‐ H2020‐EU.3.1.6. / grant 634541 / CDS_QUAMRI and CPRIT established investigator award RR180056.
Supporting information
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We thank Philipp A. Moser, Lukas Hingerl and Gilbert Hangel for their support with the preparation of Figures 1, 4, 6, and 8 as well as Zhi‐Pei Liang and Fan Lam for providing Figure 15.
APPENDIX A.
Open‐source MRS/MRSI processing tools (in alphabetical order).
BrICS (https://brainimaging.emory.edu/brics/)—mainly display of metabolic maps and spectra.
CSItools (https://hci.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/hci/softwares/csitools)—MRSI processing and display.
FID‐A (https://github.com/CIC-methods/FID-A)—simulation and processing of MRS(I) data.
Gannet (http://www.gabamrs.com/)—edited MRS processing.
INSPECTOR (http://innovation.columbia.edu/technologies/cu17130_inspector)—simulation and processing of MRS(I) data.
jMRUI (http://www.jmrui.eu/)—simulation, processing and display of MRS(I) data.
jSIPRO (https://www.sites.google.com/site/jsiprotool/)—processing and display of MRSI data.
MIDAS (http://mrir.med.miami.edu:8000/midas/)—acquisition, processing and display of whole‐brain MRSI data.
MRSItoolbox (https://cds-quamri.eu/index.php)—processing and display of MRSI data.
OXSA (https://github.com/oxsatoolbox/oxsa)—processing of MRS(I) data.
ProFit (https://mrtm.ethz.ch/research/mr-spectroscopy/physiological-projects/profit.html)—quantification of MRS(I) data.
SIVIC (http://sourceforge.net/projects/sivic/)—processing and display of MRS(I) data.
TARQUIN (http://tarquin.sourceforge.net/)—processing and display of MRSI data.
Bogner W, Otazo R, Henning A. Accelerated MR spectroscopic imaging—a review of current and emerging techniques. NMR in Biomedicine. 2021;34:e4314. 10.1002/nbm.4314
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