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Abstract #4330

Accelerating myelin-water imaging by extracting myelin content from anatomical and diffusion images through machine learning

Gerhard S Drenthen1,2, Walter H Backes1, and Jacobus FA Jansen1,2
1Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, Netherlands, 2Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands

In this study we aim to accelerate the acquisition time of myelin-water imaging by acquiring fewer slices and applying machine learning to extract myelin-specific information from anatomical (T1w and T2w) and diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI), which are commonly available in many clinical research studies. It is shown that with a 6-fold acceleration (from 7:30min to 1:15min) the myelin content can be reconstructed using neural networks with an agreement to the ground-truth that is comparable to the reproducibility of the scan itself.

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