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ArticleMagnetic resonance in medicine2014

Smoothness of in vivo spectral baseline determined by mean-square error.

Yan Zhang, Jun Shen

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Article in Magnetic resonance in medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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  4. Separation of Metabolites and Macromolecules for Short-TEIEEE transactions on medical imaging · 2021
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  6. Effects of noise and linewidth on in vivo analysis of glutamate at 3 T.Journal of magnetic resonance (San Diego, Calif. : 1997) · 2020
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  9. High-resolutionMagnetic resonance in medicine · 2017
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2 authors.

Yan ZhangMR Spectroscopy Core Facility, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Jun Shen

Funding

Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging Studies of Brain FunctionsZIAMH002803 · NIMH · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH · PI SHEN, JUN · 2009 to 2025
$24.9M
Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Core FacilityZICMH002894 · NIMH · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH · PI SHEN, JUN · 2009 to 2024
$13.5M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIC MH002894
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeA nonparametric smooth line is usually added to the spectral model to account for background signals in vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS). The assumed smoothness of the baseline significantly influences quantitative spectral fitting. In this paper, a method is proposed to minimize baseline influences on the estimated spectral parameters.

methodsThe nonparametric baseline function with a given smoothness was treated as a function of spectral parameters. Its uncertainty was measured by root-mean-square error (RMSE). The proposed method was demonstrated with a simulated spectrum and in vivo spectra of both short echo time and averaged echo times. The estimated in vivo baselines were compared with the metabolite-nulled spectra and the LCModel-estimated baselines. The accuracies of estimated baseline and metabolite concentrations were further verified via cross-validation.

resultsAn optimal smoothness condition was found that led to the minimal baseline RMSE. In this condition, the best fit was balanced against minimal baseline influences on metabolite concentration estimates.

conclusionBaseline RMSE can be used to indicate estimated baseline uncertainties and serve as the criterion for determining the baseline smoothness of in vivo MRS.

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ArtifactsData Interpretation, StatisticalModels, StatisticalBrainComputer SimulationMagnetic Resonance SpectroscopyNeurotransmitter AgentsReproducibility of ResultsSensitivity and SpecificitySignal-To-Noise RatioNeurotransmitter AgentsbaselinebiasCramér-Rao lower boundFisher matrixroot-mean-square errorsmoothnessspectral fitting

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PMCPMC4028435

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