Moti Freiman1, Jeannette M. Perez-Rossello1, Michael J. Callahan1, Mark Bittman1, Stephan D. Voss1, Robert V. Mulkern1, Simon K. Warfield1
1Radiology, Children's Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
Numerical schemes commonly used to estimate the Intra-voxel incoherent motion (IVIM) model parameters from DW-MRI approximate Rician noise of the signal intensities with a Gaussian noise model which may induce bias in IVIM model parameters estimation. We developed a maximum likelihood estimator (MLR) that accounts for the Rician distributed noise; and assessed the impact of the noise model and numerical algorithm used to estimate IVIM model parameters.