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ArticleMagnetic resonance in medicine2024

Model-based frequency-and-phase correction of

Dunja Simicic, Helge J Zöllner, Christopher W Davies-Jenkins, Kathleen E Hupfeld, Richard A E Edden, Georg Oeltzschner

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Article in Magnetic resonance in medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  1. A data-driven algorithm to determineMagnetic resonance in medicine · 2026
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  2. Disentangling metabolic and neurovascular timescales supporting cognitive processes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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6 authors.

Dunja SimicicRussell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6600-2696
Helge J ZöllnerRussell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7148-292X
Christopher W Davies-JenkinsRussell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6015-762X
Kathleen E HupfeldRussell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5086-4841
Richard A E EddenRussell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0671-7374
Georg OeltzschnerRussell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3083-9811

Funding

TRD 4: Platforms for multi-modal and multi-scale imaging dataP41EB031771 · NIBIB · HUGO W. MOSER RES INST KENNEDY KRIEGER · PI Peter CM Van Zijl · 2021 to 2026
$9.9M
Universal GABA-edited MRS at 3TR01EB016089 · NIBIB · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Richard Anthony Edward Edden · 2013 to 2026
$5.4M
Simultaneous Hadamard Editing of GABA and GlutathioneR01EB023963 · NIBIB · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI EDDEN, RICHARD ANTHONY EDWARD · 2017 to 2024
$3.8M
Edited Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of the Pediatric BrainR01EB032788 · NIBIB · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Richard Anthony Edward Edden · 2023 to 2026
$2.7M
Towards a comprehensive neurometabolic profile in patients with mild cognitive impairment.R00AG062230 · NIA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI OELTZSCHNER, GEORG · 2021 to 2023
$735k
General Linear Modeling For Magnetic Resonance SpectroscopyR21EB033516 · NIBIB · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI OELTZSCHNER, GEORG · 2022 to 2024
$670k
Cortical Inhibition and Mobility in Older AdultsK00AG068440 · NIA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI HUPFELD, KATHLEEN ELIZABETH · 2022 to 2024
$222k
Brain metabolism across the lifespan using multi-parametric MRSK99AG080084 · NIA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI ZOELLNER, HELGE JOERN · 2023 to 2024
$212k
NIA NIH HHS K00 AG068440NIA NIH HHS K99 AG080084NIA NIH HHS R00 AG062230NIBIB NIH HHS P41 EB031771NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB016089NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB023963NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB032788NIBIB NIH HHS R21 EB033516
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeRetrospective frequency-and-phase correction (FPC) methods attempt to remove frequency-and-phase variations between transients to improve the quality of the averaged MR spectrum. However, traditional FPC methods like spectral registration struggle at low SNR. Here, we propose a method that directly integrates FPC into a 2D linear-combination model (2D-LCM) of individual transients ("model-based FPC"). We investigated how model-based FPC performs compared to the traditional approach, i.e., spectral registration followed by 1D-LCM in estimating frequency-and-phase drifts and, consequentially, metabolite level estimates.

methodsWe created synthetic in-vivo-like 64-transient short-TE sLASER datasets with 100 noise realizations at 5 SNR levels and added randomly sampled frequency and phase variations. We then used this synthetic dataset to compare the performance of 2D-LCM with the traditional approach (spectral registration, averaging, then 1D-LCM). Outcome measures were the frequency/phase/amplitude errors, the SD of those ground-truth errors, and amplitude Cramér Rao lower bounds (CRLBs). We further tested the proposed method on publicly available in-vivo short-TE PRESS data.

results2D-LCM estimates (and accounts for) frequency-and-phase variations directly from uncorrected data with equivalent or better fidelity than the conventional approach. Furthermore, 2D-LCM metabolite amplitude estimates were at least as accurate, precise, and certain as the conventionally derived estimates. 2D-LCM estimation of FPC and amplitudes performed substantially better at low-to-very-low SNR.

conclusionModel-based FPC with 2D linear-combination modeling is feasible and has great potential to improve metabolite level estimation for conventional and dynamic MRS data, especially for low-SNR conditions, for example, long TEs or strong diffusion weighting.

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AlgorithmsBrainSignal-To-Noise RatioHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedLinear ModelsMagnetic Resonance ImagingProton Magnetic Resonance SpectroscopyRetrospective Studies2D linear‐combination modelfrequency‐and‐phase correctionmagnetic resonance spectroscopyspectral registration

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