Investigation of brain structure of infants or other uncooperative patients using diffusion-weighted MRI is challenging due to subject motion artefacts. This work proposes a novel robust augmentation to current state-of-the-art multi-shell multi-tissue (MSMT) constrained spherical deconvolution (CSD) pipeline that accounts for these artefacts in both response function estimation and in deconvolution. A proof-of-concept is shown using multi-shell infant dataset and it is compared against the normal MSMT-CSD. The results indicate that motion artefacts can result in incorrect tissue type segmentations and fiber orientation distribution (FOD) estimates which could affect negatively any following analysis such as tractography or microstructural brain modelling.
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