Abstract
Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is typically time consuming as it involves acquiring a series of 3D volumes, each associated with a wave-vector in q-space that determines the diffusion direction and strength. The acquisition time is further increased when “blip-up blip-down” scans are acquired with opposite phase encoding directions (PEDs) to facilitate distortion correction. In this work, we show that geometric distortions can be corrected without acquiring with opposite PEDs for each wave-vector, and hence the acquisition time can be halved. Our method uses complimentary rotation-invariant contrasts across shells of different diffusion weightings. Distortion-free structural T1-/T2-weighted MRI is used as reference for nonlinear registration in correcting the distortions. Signal dropout and pileup are corrected with the help of spherical harmonics. To demonstrate that our method is robust to changes in image appearance, we show that distortion correction with good structural alignment can be achieved within minutes for dMRI data of infants between 1 to 24 months of age.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2020 - 23rd International Conference, Proceedings |
Editors | Anne L. Martel, Purang Abolmaesumi, Danail Stoyanov, Diana Mateus, Maria A. Zuluaga, S. Kevin Zhou, Daniel Racoceanu, Leo Joskowicz |
Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH |
Pages | 34-43 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783030597122 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2020 |
Event | 23rd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2020 - Lima, Peru Duration: 2020 Oct 4 → 2020 Oct 8 |
Publication series
Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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Volume | 12262 LNCS |
ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Conference
Conference | 23rd International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2020 |
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Country/Territory | Peru |
City | Lima |
Period | 20/10/4 → 20/10/8 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported in part by NIH grants (NS093842, AG053867, EB006733, MH104324, and MH110274) and the efforts of the UNC/UMN Baby Connectome Project Consortium.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Keywords
- Eddy-current distortion
- Rotation-invariant contrasts
- Susceptibility-induced distortion
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Theoretical Computer Science
- General Computer Science