Clinical feasibility of artificial intelligence-assisted compressed sensing for accelerated MR imaging in nasopharyngeal carcinoma

To improve the scanning efficiency of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for nasopharyngeal carcinoma, this study investigated the value of accelerating technique, artificial intelligence-assisted compressed sensing (ACS), in comparison to conventional sequences without accelerating technique and accelerating MRI using parallel imaging (PI). Eleven patients diagnosed with nasopharyngeal carcinoma were prospectively enrolled. As a result, ACS achieved the shortest acquisition time, with similar or even better image quality and SNR than conventional sequences. ACS has the potential to provide sufficient image quality for T1- and T2-weighted imaging in nasopharyngeal carcinoma and could be an alternative to conventional sequences in clinical practice.