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Abstract #1152

Super-resolution mean diffusivity spectroscopic MRI in the human brain

Alexandru V Avram1,2, Magdoom Kulam1, Joelle E Sarlls3, Raisa Freidlin4, and Peter J Basser1
1Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States, 2Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine, The Henry Jackson Foundation, Bethesda, MD, United States, 3National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States, 4Center for Information Technology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States

Synopsis

We describe a comprehensive pipeline for super-resolution reconstruction of clinical diffusion-weighted MRIs acquired with isotropic diffusion encoding (IDE), or spherical tensor encoding. The pipeline integrates blip-up/down EPI distortion correction and slice-to-volume registration (SVR). Multiple low-resolution IDE-MRIs with different slice orientations relative to the brain are processed to reconstruct high-resolution IDE-MRIs. From high-resolution IDE-MRIs with a wide range of b-values we estimate spectra of subvoxel MD values to describe the distribution of water mobilities in microscopic brain tissue microenvironments. Integrating SVR-reconstruction with IDE is an important step in the clinical translation of MD spectroscopic MRI for fetal MRI applications.

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