Reconstruction of scattered data in fetal diffusion MRI.

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serval:BIB_E53B6D004431
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Collection
Publications
Title
Reconstruction of scattered data in fetal diffusion MRI.
Journal
Medical image computing and computer-assisted intervention
Author(s)
Oubel E., Koob M., Studholme C., Dietemann J.L., Rousseau F.
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2010
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
13
Number
Pt 1
Pages
574-581
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
In this paper we present a method for reconstructing D-MRI data on regular grids from sparse data without assuming specific diffusion models. This is particularly important when studying the fetal brain in utero, since registration methods applied for movement and distortion correction produce scattered data in spatial and angular (gradient) domains. We propose the use of a groupwise registration method, and a dual spatio-angular interpolation by using radial basis functions (RBF). Experiments performed on adult data showed a high accuracy of the method when estimating diffusion images in unavailable directions. The application to fetal data showed an improvement in the quality of the sequences according to criteria based on fractional anisotropy (FA) maps, and differences in the tractography results.

Keywords
Algorithms, Brain/anatomy & histology, Brain/embryology, Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods, Humans, Image Enhancement/methods, Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted/methods, Prenatal Diagnosis/methods, Reproducibility of Results, Sensitivity and Specificity, Subtraction Technique
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