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Abstract #0511

End-to-end Complex Image Reconstruction Pipeline for GE Diffusion MRI Acquisitions

Francesco D'Antonio1, Shaun Warrington1, Paul Morgan1, and Stamatios Sotiropoulos1
1Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Synopsis

Keywords: Diffusion Reconstruction, Diffusion Reconstruction

Motivation: Reconstructing diffusion MRI (dMRI) data in the complex domain, which provides superior denoising capabilities compared to magnitude data, is not available as standard from some scanner manufacturers.

Goal(s): Our goal was to create a scalable offline reconstruction pipeline for dMRI acquisitions on GE HealthCare scanners to access complex diffusion data.

Approach: We developed an end-to-end Python pipeline for complex reconstruction by building upon the C++ Orchestra SDK available through GE, including capabilities for in-plane/out-of-plane accelerations.

Results: We validated the pipeline by comparing scanner and offline magnitude reconstruction. We make the complex offline dMRI reconstruction available for GE scanners users.

Impact: The offline reconstruction pipeline allows access to complex dMRI data, retrospectively switching filters off and supporting in-plane/out-of-plane accelerations and partial Fourier. This allows seamless operations in the complex domain (e.g. denoising) and potentially paves the way for vendor-agnostic image reconstruction.

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