WO2003002199A2 - Magnetresonanzanlage und verfahren zum betrieb - Google Patents
Magnetresonanzanlage und verfahren zum betriebInfo
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61N—ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; RADIATION THERAPY; ULTRASOUND THERAPY
- A61N2/00—Magnetotherapy
- A61N2/02—Magnetotherapy using magnetic fields produced by coils, including single turn loops or electromagnets
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- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
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- A61N1/00—Electrotherapy; Circuits therefor
- A61N1/40—Applying electric fields by inductive or capacitive coupling ; Applying radio-frequency signals
- A61N1/403—Applying electric fields by inductive or capacitive coupling ; Applying radio-frequency signals for thermotherapy, e.g. hyperthermia
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- G01R33/54—Signal processing systems, e.g. using pulse sequences ; Generation or control of pulse sequences; Operator console
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- G01R33/5611—Parallel magnetic resonance imaging, e.g. sensitivity encoding [SENSE], simultaneous acquisition of spatial harmonics [SMASH], unaliasing by Fourier encoding of the overlaps using the temporal dimension [UNFOLD], k-t-broad-use linear acquisition speed-up technique [k-t-BLAST], k-t-SENSE
- G01R33/5612—Parallel RF transmission, i.e. RF pulse transmission using a plurality of independent transmission channels
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- the present invention relates to a magnetic resonance system with a basic field magnet, a plurality of gradient field coils, an RF transmitter and receiver unit and a control unit for controlling the gradient field coils and the RF transmitter and receiver unit for carrying out magnetic resonance measurements.
- the invention further relates to a method for operating such a magnetic resonance system.
- Magnetic resonance systems are used in medical diagnostics for imaging the inside of a patient's body. Magnetic resonance systems can be used for imaging, for example in neurology, angiography or cardiology.
- a common field of application of magnetic resonance imaging is the visualization or monitoring of tumors in cancer treatment.
- targeted heating of the tumorous area is carried out by means of focused radiation of high frequency (HF) energy in order to support or instead of chemotherapy or radiation treatment.
- HF high frequency
- This newer technique is known as selective hyperthermia.
- the patient is positioned in a hyperthermia applicator so that the area of the body to be treated is located approximately in the middle under the applicator.
- the hyperthermia applicator is composed of a number of arrayed RF dipoles, each of which is supplied with pulse-shaped or time-constant RF power of a defined amplitude and phase position.
- the phase position and amplitude of the radio frequency on each individual dipole is selected so that the RF energy radiated by the individual dipoles is located at the location of the area to be treated, ie the tumor superimposed so that the maximum field strength is reached there.
- Part of the focused RF energy is absorbed by the tissue in the area of the tumor, so that this area heats up depending on the radiated RF energy. Since the tumorous tissue is thermally more sensitive than healthy tissue, the warming damages it more than the surrounding healthy tissue. Such targeted heat treatment can cause the tumorous tissue to die.
- a fundamental problem with hyperthermia treatment is the different speed of propagation of electromagnetic waves in the tissue and the surrounding air.
- the propagation distance of the electromagnetic waves from the transmitter dipoles to the tumor is more or less filled with tissue or air.
- the air space between the patient and the applicator is filled with a water cushion, which is filled with a special water solution after the patient has been positioned. Through this water cushion, the rates of propagation of RF radiation in the patient's body and between the
- Body and hyperthermia applicator approximated so that a sufficiently good focus is achieved even with different patient anatomies.
- this procedure is perceived as uncomfortable, particularly in claustrophobic patients.
- other applicators for example for physiological monitoring of the patient during hyperthermia treatment, is made more difficult by the water cushion, since there is little space for the positioning of additional applicators.
- Magnetic resonance measurements are also being considered in the search for improved techniques to measure tissue temperature during hyperthermia treatment.
- the temperature is determined by means of a magnetic resonance examination which is carried out simultaneously with the hyperthermia treatment.
- the hyperthermia applicator is inserted into the examination room of a magnetic resonance system and a magnetic resonance measurement is carried out simultaneously with the heating.
- the temperature of the tissue can be derived from the T1-T2 shift of the magnetic resonance signals obtained from the region of interest.
- the accuracy of the temperature measurement is a problem when using this new approach to temperature measurement.
- This accuracy is currently hardly sufficient, since the hyperthermia applicator is arranged between the RF transmitter and receiver unit of the magnetic resonance system and the patient, so that the received signal of the magnetic resonance echo is received only very weakly by the RF transmitting and receiving unit of the magnetic resonance system.
- the magnetic resonance signal is damped by the water cushions arranged between the thermal applicator and the patient.
- Another reason for the lack of accuracy of such a temperature measurement is the choice of the RF transmission frequency of the magnetic resonance system.
- These magnetic resonance frequencies must maintain a sufficient distance from the radio frequency of the hyperthermia applicator in order to decouple the magnetic resonance system from the hyperthermia system and to have disruptive mutual influences between the two systems avoid.
- Known hyperthermia applicators operate in the frequency range of 100 MHz in order to achieve sufficient focusability of the high-frequency field in the patient's body. Therefore, the magnetic resonance frequencies are usually chosen in the range of 8-64 MHz in order to maintain a sufficient distance from the 100 MHz of the hyperthermia applicator.
- the selected magnetic resonance frequencies require magnetic field strengths of the basic field magnet between 0.2 T and 1.5 T for the excitation of the magnetic resonance. With such basic field strengths, however, the temperature-dependent Tl-T2 shift is not very clear, so that this also impairs the accuracy of the temperature determination becomes.
- the object of the present invention is to provide a device for selective hyperthermia treatment, which enables sufficient focusing of the HF field without the use of water cushions and stress-free temperature measurement with high accuracy.
- the present magnetic resonance system is designed in a known manner with a basic field magnet, a plurality of gradient field coils, an RF transmitter and receiver unit and a control unit for controlling the gradient field coils and the RF transmitter and receiver unit for carrying out magnetic resonance measurements.
- the RF transmitter and receiver unit consists of a large number of antennas arranged in an array around an examination room, which can be controlled independently of one another via separate transmission channels for the emission of RF radiation of predeterminable phase and amplitude. For each of the antennas NEN a separate receive channel is also provided.
- the control unit is designed in such a way that it determines the amplitude and phase of a locally selective magnetic resonance signal received by the antenna and can control the antennas independently of one another to emit HF radiation of predeterminable phase and amplitude in order to generate an RF field focused in the examination room for hyperthermia treatment.
- the antennas and the gradient field coils are first activated to carry out a location-selective magnetic resonance measurement in the body to be examined.
- the magnetic resonance signals are received with the antennas and the magnetic resonance signals received from the body area to be treated are processed by the control unit for each individual reception channel, i.e. H. for each individual antenna, evaluated according to amplitude and phase, in order to detect the amplitude attenuation and phase shift of the high-frequency radiation on the way between the body area to be treated and each individual antenna.
- the individual antennas are then controlled independently of one another by the control unit with a suitable amplitude and phase, taking into account the detected amplitude attenuation and phase shift, in order to generate a correctly focused HF field for hyperthermia treatment at the location of the body area to be treated.
- the present design of the magnetic resonance system and the operating method mentioned enable hyperthermia treatment of a patient without a water cushion.
- the control of each individual antenna for the correct focusing of the RF field in the correct phase and in phase is determined in advance by detecting the amplitude and phase of the magnetic resonance signal received from each individual antenna from the area of the body to be treated. In this way, regardless of the patient's anatomy and the space between the antennas and the patient always the correct amplitude and phase control for optimal focusing of the RF field at the location of an area to be treated, especially tumor, reached.
- the present implementation of the magnetic resonance system with the simultaneous possibility of locally selective hyperthermia treatment is achieved not by an additional installation of a hyperthermia applicator but by a simple redesign of already existing components of a magnetic resonance system.
- the one or more power transmitters for the antennas are designed in such a way that, on the one hand, they can deliver the continuous power required for hyperthermia treatment, which is of the order of 1-2 kW.
- the power transmitters must be designed so that they have enough pulse power for magnetic resonance measurements, i. H. Pulse powers in the order of 20-30 kW can deliver.
- the usual pulse power transmitter used in magnetic resonance systems is preferably replaced by a larger number of power transmitters with a smaller pulse power per transmission channel.
- the individual antennas are preferably designed as resonance bars or elongated, electrically conductive material layers that correspond to resonance bars in the HF behavior and should have dimensions that are as small as possible.
- the individual resonator rods are arranged around the cylindrical space for the patient. They are also equipped with a matching device that matches the impedance of the transmission path to the area of the body to be treated, which is influenced by the patient and the geometry in the examination room, to the line impedance of the supply line, which connects the power amplifier to the resonator rod, adapts.
- the adaptation device can be equipped with a fixed transformation ratio or can be aligned for each patient through individual tuning.
- a separate power transmitter is provided for each antenna.
- Each of these power transmitters is equipped with its own transmitter control circuit, which enables the phase control and amplitude control of the antenna.
- the control circuit should be able to generate any desired RF pulse shapes with widely differing pulse durations, in order to enable both magnetic resonance measurements with pulse-shaped excitation and hyperthermia treatment with continuous radiation.
- Each of the transmitter control circuits preferably comprises a modulator, which is supplied from a base value table via an analog-digital converter (ADC).
- ADC analog-digital converter
- the modulator can be implemented by an analog IQ modulator or a digital NCO.
- the frequency generation for the transmission frequency can take place with a PLL or a DDS loop.
- Such circuits for frequency generation are known to the person skilled in the field of magnetic resonance systems.
- each antenna also has a separate reception channel in order to be able to detect a magnetic resonance echo or signal that is induced in the antennas.
- a transceiver changeover switch is preferably arranged between the respective matching unit and the power amplifier, which forwards the magnetic resonance signal on each transmitting antenna to a receiver circuit.
- the receiver circuit itself is implemented by a preamplifier circuit and a demodulator circuit, which can separate each individual received signal according to amplitude and phase.
- the receiver circuit can either be equipped with an analog IQ demodulator or with a digital demodulator. This receiver circuit enables the detection of the phase shifts and the attenuation of the RF amplitude in the tissue surrounding the tumor.
- the present magnetic resonance system is designed to generate a sufficiently high magnetic resonance frequency which enables the high-frequency field to be clearly focused at the field strength of the basic field magnet.
- the field strength of the basic field magnet is selected in such a way that a clear representation of the temperatures in the examined tissue is still achieved at the associated magnetic resonance frequency.
- a field strength of 3T is suitable for the field strength of the basic field magnet, so that a magnetic resonance frequency of 123.2 MHz is generated.
- This magnetic resonance frequency corresponds to a wavelength of 10 - 30 cm in the patient's body and 2.5 m in the air, so that a sufficiently strong focusing of the RF energy can be achieved.
- the operation of the present magnetic resonance system is preferably carried out in such a way that the radiation of the HF energy for heating the desired body area is briefly interrupted several times in order to carry out a magnetic resonance measurement to determine the temperature in the corresponding body area.
- the temperature is measured using a conventional magnetic resonance measurement with the antennas and subsequent evaluation of the T1-T2 shift.
- the location information is obtained in a known manner via the frequency and phase coding with the gradient field coils.
- the temperature is measured several times in the course of the heating process in order to avoid overheating of the corresponding area.
- the intervals between the individual temperature measurements are selected depending on the radiated RF power, duration of the irradiation and body area. Depending on the type of magnetic resonance measurement, d. H. at the choice of
- Pulse sequence a range of a few 100 ms, in particular between 100 ms and 1 s, is provided for the temperature measurement. hen. Between the temperature measurements, the radiation of the HF energy for heating the body area to be treated takes place.
- a reception channel of the magnetic resonance system is connected to a surface coil, which enables a very good signal-to-noise ratio for the magnetic resonance measurements to determine the temperature.
- a receiver circuit which is designed in accordance with the receiver circuits of the antennas of the RF transmitter and receiver unit.
- the antennas of the RF transmitter and receiver unit and the surface coils are additionally equipped with a detuning device in order to prevent the part of the resonator that is not being used from being interfered with from the measurement.
- a detuning device is known from conventional magnetic resonance systems.
- a tuning sequence is implemented with the magnetic resonance system before the start of the heating sequence, in which the magnetic resonance signals received from a predefinable body area are evaluated with regard to their amplitude and phase position received on the individual antennas.
- this tuning sequence is implemented as an FID measurement, wherein the emission of echoes from areas of the body that are not of interest can be prevented by suitable activation of the gradient field coils.
- RF energy When excited, RF energy is emitted from the tumorous area in the form of magnetic resonance signals, which are then transmitted by each antenna. ne is caught at the same time.
- the phases and amplitudes required to control the individual antennas for generating focused RF radiation in the tumorous body area can be derived from the phase and amplitude differences.
- the antennas are then controlled precisely with these phases and amplitudes determined in advance for each individual transmitting antenna.
- Such a magnetic resonance measurement for determining the correct phases and amplitudes for controlling the antennas can of course also be repeated while the heating sequence is being carried out by briefly interrupting it for the magnetic resonance measurement. In this way, optimal focusing results can be achieved even when the patient changes position during treatment.
- FIG. 1 shows a greatly simplified illustration of a magnetic resonance system
- FIG. 2 schematically shows an example of the design of the RF transmission and reception unit of a magnetic resonance system according to the present invention
- 3 shows a sketch to illustrate the superimposition of the RF fields generated by the individual antennas in a tumorous body area of a patient
- 4 shows an example of the operation of an NGO for generating amplitude and phase correct RF signals
- FIG. 5 shows an exemplary sequence for a hyperthermia treatment with simultaneous temperature measurement.
- FIG. 1 shows the basic structure of a magnetic resonance system, as is also implemented in the present invention, in a highly simplified manner. The figure shows the basic field magnet 23, the gradient field coils 24, the RF transmitter and receiver unit 25, which encloses the examination room 27, and a control unit 26 for controlling the gradient field coils 24 and the RF transmitter and receiver unit 25.
- the units present in magnetic resonance systems such as evaluation computer, memory, pulse sequence control, pulse shape generator or HF generator are summarized in the control unit 26 in this representation.
- FIG. 2 shows an example of an embodiment of an RF transmitter and receiver unit, as used in a magnetic resonance system according to the present invention.
- the HF transmitting and receiving unit is composed of a plurality of resonator bars 1 arranged in the form of an array, which are arranged around the cylindrical examination space 27 intended for the patient.
- Each of the individual resonator rods 1 is connected to its own transmission channel 2 and its own reception channel 3. In the figure, only two of these receive and transmit channels for two resonator rods are indicated by way of example.
- the transmission channel 2 comprises a memory 6 for storing the envelope curve and the phase curve for the generation of the RF excitation pulses.
- An NCO operated as a modulator 7 modulates the required pulse shape and phase onto a carrier frequency signal f which is obtained from a frequency generator (not shown).
- the signal is then converted in a digital-to-analog converter 8 and amplified via the power amplifier 9.
- the RF signal amplified in this way is fed to the resonator rod 1 via a tuning circuit 11 which serves to adapt the impedance.
- the individual resonator rods 1 are controlled independently of one another to emit HF radiation or HF pulses of a defined phase and amplitude.
- the individual resonator rods 1 are first activated to emit an RF pulse for the excitation of a magnetic resonance excitation signal in this body region. Then, or simultaneously with the transmission, the spatial region from which the FID signal is emitted is limited to the tumorous region by controlling gradient fields.
- the transmit / receive changeover switches 10 are then switched over in order to switch the resonator rods 1 to receive or to connect them to the respective receive channel 3.
- the magnetic resonance signal is received by each of the resonator rods 1 and fed to an analog-digital converter 13 via a preamplifier 12.
- the digitized signal is divided in an NGO 14, which is operated as a demodulator, in accordance with the phase and amplitude, and is fed to an evaluation computer 15, which evaluates the amplitude and phase of the magnetic resonance signal for a specific area of the body, in order to determine for each of the resonator rods to obtain the amplitude and phase required for focusing.
- the individual resonator rods 1 are then driven with the amplitudes and phases determined for them in order to achieve correct focusing in the tumorous body area.
- the transmit / receive switches 10 are put back on the transmit channel and the individual resonator rods 1 are subjected to a continuous RF power. This continuous power can also be composed of RF pulses.
- This phase and amplitude correct control enables the RF energy to be focused in the tumorous body region 16 of the patient 17 without the use of water cushions, as is indicated schematically in FIG. 3.
- resonator rods 1 are indicated in this figure, which are driven with different phase differences ⁇ and amplitudes ⁇ U to emit HF radiation.
- Figure 2 also shows a possibility of temperature measurement during hyperthermia treatment. For this temperature measurement, the heating phase is briefly interrupted in order to generate an RF pulse via the resonator rods 1 to excite a magnetic resonance signal.
- the associated pulse sequence is known to the person skilled in the art from conventional magnetic resonance measurements.
- a surface coil 4 can optionally be positioned directly on the body region of interest of the patient and connected to a separate receiving channel 5.
- This receive channel 5 like the receive channels 3 of the resonator bars 1, has a preamplifier 12, an analog-digital converter 13, and an NCO 14 and is connected to the evaluation computer 15.
- the measurement of the resonance signal for temperature measurement with the aid of a surface coil has the advantage of a very good signal-to-noise ratio.
- FIG. 4 shows an example of the connection of an NCO 7 as a modulator for generating RF radiation of predeterminable amplitude and phase.
- the NCO can also be operated in the opposite direction to demodulate a received signal.
- the generation of the digital data streams which represent a sine and cosine signal of the received RF signal in relation to a reference frequency, is carried out in the same way as for the NCO which is used for transmission.
- the received data stream received and digitized by the ADC is divided between the two multipliers.
- One signal component is multiplied by a sine data stream, the other by a cosine data stream.
- the received RF signal is displayed as a real part and imaginary part component based on the reference signal generated by the DDS.
- FIG. 5 finally shows a control sequence for controlling the resonator rods 1 for the hyperthermia treatment.
- This heating sequence 20 is briefly interrupted in order to radiate an HF pulse sequence 21 for carrying out a magnetic resonance measurement in a known manner and then to receive the magnetic resonance signal via the individual resonator rods 1 during a defined reception time 22. The heating is then continued with a new heating sequence 20.
- the control pulses for the gradient field coils for spatial coding in the x, y and z directions, as they occur in a spin-echo sequence can be seen schematically. Other sequence techniques, not shown here, can of course also be used for this purpose.
- the temperature of the tissue in the region of interest can be derived from the result of the magnetic resonance measurement.
- the present system is able to carry out all magnetic resonance applications that take place at the radiated RF frequency. These applications are used to carry out the anatomy display or spectroscopy measurements in the patient's area of interest and to measure the temperature distribution in the patient. Furthermore, the present system is able to control the individual resonator rods in such a way that a targeted focusing of the HF field is possible.
- the heating sequence is divided into time slots in order to be able to interleave it with the magnetic resonance sequence for temperature measurement, so that the
- the frequency at which the magnetic resonance measurements are carried out here corresponds at least approximately to the frequency at which the hyperthermia treatment is carried out. This enables the correct determination of the phase and amplitude with which each individual resonator rod must be controlled.
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