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Abstract #1040

The impact of white matter microstructure with multi-fiber populations on gradient-echo frequency maps and QSM

Lin Chen1,2, Deng Mao3, Guillaume Gilbert4, Maarten Versluis5, Peter van Zijl1,2, and Xu Li1,2
1Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States, 2F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States, 3MR Clinical Science, Philips Healthcare, Baltimore, MD, United States, 4MR Clinical Science, Philips Healthcare, Mississauga, ON, Canada, 5MRI Clinical Science, Philips Healthcare, Best, Netherlands

Synopsis

Keywords: Microstructure, White MatterA hollow cylinder fiber model (HCFM) with two orientation-dispersed fiber populations was used to characterize white matter microstructure-based susceptibility effects. The resulting TE-dependent frequency shifts were fitted with a curve function parameterized by a microstructure induced frequency difference (Δf) and bulk susceptibility induced frequency shift (Cf). Local frequency and QSM reconstruction using the fitted Cf versus using weighted echo averaging were compared by a head phantom and in vivo human brain data. Δf provided a useful contrast to illustrate the underlying white matter microstructure and Cf helped to improve the quantification accuracy of tissue magnetic susceptibility using QSM.

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