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September 17, 2025

Model-Agnostic Deep Learning Approaches for Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Thermometry Reconstruction

Key Points

The optimized residual unet model enhances temperature mapping accuracy and speed, enabling better monitoring during therapies.
Achieving acceleration rates of 1.9 and 3.7 for 2× and 4× k-space under-sampling illustrates the model's efficacy.
Applying data augmentation and knowledge distillation techniques improved the deep learning model's performance in clinical datasets.
These advancements in real-time monitoring capabilities may expand deep learning applications to various imaging techniques.

Abstract

Motivation: Effective real-time temperature monitoring is essential in FUS therapies, but existing MR thermometry methods often sacifice phase accuracy and speed, limiting clinical applications. Goal(s): This study aims to enhance both accuracy and real-time capability in MR thermometry by optimizing a deep learning-based reconstruction method. Approach: A residual UNet model with four optimizations-offline and online data augmentation, knowledge distillation, and amplitude-phase decoupled loss, was applied to phantom, ex vivo, and clinical datasets, with 2× and 4× k-space under-sampling. Results: The optimized ResUNet model demonstrated superior temperature map accuracy and speed, achieving effective acceleration rates of 1.9 and 3.7 for 2× and 4× under-sampling, respectively. Impact: The study's results enable faster and more accurate MR thermometry, allowing clinicians to better monitor and control temperature in thermal therapies. This advancement encourages further investigation into deep learning's role in MR applications, potentially extending to other phase-sensitive imaging techniques.

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