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Abstract #0971

Rotation-invariant microstructure mapping revisited

Daan Christiaens1,2, J-Donald Tournier3, Stefan Sunaert2,4, and Frederik Maes1,2
1Dept. of Electrical Engineering, ESAT/PSI, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 2Medical Imaging Research Center, UZ Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 3Centre for the Developing Brain, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King's College London, London, United Kingdom, 4Department of Imaging & Pathology, Translational MRI, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Synopsis

Keywords: Microstructure, Diffusion/other diffusion imaging techniquesMicrostructure imaging with diffusion MRI relies on non-linear fitting of a biophysical tissue model to the data, often at low signal-to-noise ratio. In this work, we derive a new rotation-invariant feature set for microstructure mapping based on a rank-1 decomposition of the multi-shell diffusion MRI signal in spherical harmonics. Simulations show that using this feature set avoids non-central-χ bias that is present at low SNR in parameter estimation based on conventional rotation-invariants. Results in human brain imaging data acquired with free waveform diffusion encoding show robust parameter estimates across white matter.

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