Keywords: Diffusion Modeling, Diffusion/other diffusion imaging techniques, Rician Bias, Noise, SMI
Motivation: Rician noise degrades the accuracy of biophysical modeling. Understanding this bias and defining a robust strategy for its mitigation, is important for reproducible and quantitative use of diffusion MRI.
Goal(s): To study the impact of noise biases on biophysical models and evaluate methods for more accurate estimation of diffusion metrics.
Approach: We compare various parameter estimators (via simulations and MRI data) and evaluate their impact on the accuracy of biophysical model parameters.
Results: The use of rotational-invariant spherical harmonics in biophysical modeling is a source of noise bias that can be mitigated by fitting such models directly to the diffusion-weighted signals.
Impact: With the advent of higher b-values, Rician bias pose a threat to the reproducibility in diffusion MRI studies. With this work we take a deep look at such bias and propose alternatives to avoid such counfounders from the final estimates.
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