Title

A numerical framework for interstitial fluid pressure imaging in poroelastic MRE

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-6-2017

Publication Title

PLoS One

Department

Thayer School of Engineering

Abstract

A numerical framework for interstitial fluid pressure imaging (IFPI) in biphasic materials is investigated based on three-dimensional nonlinear finite element poroelastic inversion. The objective is to reconstruct the time-harmonic pore-pressure field from tissue excitation in addition to the elastic parameters commonly associated with magnetic resonance elastography (MRE). The unknown pressure boundary conditions (PBCs) are estimated using the available full-volume displacement data from MRE. A subzone-based nonlinear inversion (NLI) technique is then used to update mechanical and hydrodynamical properties, given the appropriate subzone PBCs, by solving a pressure forward problem (PFP). The algorithm was evaluated on a single-inclusion phantom in which the elastic property and hydraulic conductivity images were recovered. Pressure field and material property estimates had spatial distributions reflecting their true counterparts in the phantom geometry with RMS errors around 20% for cases with 5% noise, but degraded significantly in both spatial distribution and property values for noise levels > 10%. When both shear moduli and hydraulic conductivity were estimated along with the pressure field, property value error rates were as high as 58%, 85% and 32% for the three quantities, respectively, and their spatial distributions were more distorted. Opportunities for improving the algorithm are discussed.

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0178521

Original Citation

Tan L, McGarry MDJ, Van Houten EEW, Ji M, Solamen L, et al. (2017) A numerical framework for interstitial fluid pressure imaging in poroelastic MRE. PLOS ONE 12(6): e0178521. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178521

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