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Non-Cartesian Self-Supervised Physics-Driven Deep Learning Reconstruction for Highly-Accelerated Multi-Echo Spiral fMRI

Abstract

Functional MRI (fMRI) is an important tool for non-invasive studies of brain function. Over the past decade, multi-echo fMRI methods that sample multiple echo times has become popular with potential to improve quantification. While these acquisitions are typically performed with Cartesian trajectories, non-Cartesian trajectories, in particular spiral acquisitions, hold promise for denser sampling of echo times. However, such acquisitions require very high acceleration rates for sufficient spatiotemporal resolutions. In this work, we propose to use a physics-driven deep learning (PD-DL) reconstruction to accelerate multi-echo spiral fMRI by 10-fold. We modify a self-supervised learning algorithm for optimized training with non-Cartesian trajectories and use it to train the PD-DL network. Results show that the proposed self-supervised PD-DL reconstruction achieves high spatio-temporal resolution with meaningful BOLD analysis.

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