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ArticleMagnetic resonance in medicine2021

Asymmetric susceptibility tensor imaging.

Steven Cao, Hongjiang Wei, Jingjia Chen, Chunlei Liu

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Article in Magnetic resonance in medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Steven CaoDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0476-1520
Hongjiang WeiDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9060-4152
Jingjia ChenDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.
Chunlei LiuDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.
University of California, Berkeley · USShanghai Jiao Tong University · CN

Funding

MRI CORTICOGRAPHY: DEVELOPING NEXT GENERATION MICROSCALE HUMAN CORTEX MRI SCANNERU01EB025162 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI FEINBERG, DAVID ALAN, LIU, CHUNLEI · 2017 to 2021
$13.4M
NIBIB NIH HHS U01 EB025162
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeTo investigate the symmetry constraint in susceptibility tensor imaging. THEORY: The linear relationship between the MRI frequency shift and the magnetic susceptibility tensor is derived without constraining the tensor to be symmetric. In the asymmetric case, the system matrix is shown to be maximally rank 6. Nonetheless, relaxing the symmetry constraint may still improve tensor estimation because noise and image artifacts do not necessarily follow the constraint.

methodsGradient echo phase data are obtained from postmortem mouse brain and kidney samples. Both symmetric and asymmetric tensor reconstructions are applied to the data. The reconstructions are then used for susceptibility tensor imaging fiber tracking. Simulations with ground truth and at various noise levels are also performed. The reconstruction methods are compared qualitatively and quantitatively.

resultsCompared to regularized and unregularized symmetric reconstructions, the asymmetric reconstruction shows reduced noise and streaking artifacts, better contrast, and more complete fiber tracking. In simulation, the asymmetric reconstruction achieves better mean squared error and better angular difference in the presence of noise. Decomposing the asymmetric tensor into its symmetric and antisymmetric components confirms that the underlying susceptibility tensor is symmetric and that the main sources of asymmetry are noise and streaking artifacts.

conclusionWhereas the susceptibility tensor is symmetric, asymmetric reconstruction is more effective in suppressing noise and artifacts, resulting in more accurate estimation of the susceptibility tensor.

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ArtifactsBrainAlgorithmsAnimalsComputer SimulationImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMagnetic Resonance ImagingMiceasymmetric susceptibility tensorimage reconstructionstreaking artifactssusceptibility tensor imaging

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PMID34014008
PMCPMC8678077
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