• DocumentCode
    2570965
  • Title

    Deblurring of probabilistic ODFs in quantitative diffusion MRI

  • Author

    Tristán-Vega, Antonio ; Aja-Fernández, Santiago ; Westin, Carl-Fredrik

  • Author_Institution
    Lab. de Procesado de Imagen, Spain
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    2-5 May 2012
  • Firstpage
    932
  • Lastpage
    935
  • Abstract
    The Funk-Radon Transform allows to approximate the central section integral of the diffusion signal to compute probabilistic Orientation Distribution Functions (ODF) of fiber populations, provided the behavior for the b-values not acquired is known. To relax the latter demand, it has been proposed to compute instead the integral inside the disk defined in the central section by the b-value acquired. The price to pay is low-pass filtering the ODF, cropping the information it provides. We propose a method to palliate this problem with negligible computational overload. Not only it improves the accuracy in the determination of the diffusion directions, but it also refines the crossing angles that can be resolved.
  • Keywords
    biodiffusion; biomedical MRI; data acquisition; filtering theory; low-pass filters; medical signal processing; probability; transforms; Funk-Radon transform; b-value acquisition; central section integral; diffusion signal; low-pass filtering; probabilistic orientation distribution function deblurring; quantitative diffusion MRI; Computational modeling; Convolution; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Magnetic resonance imaging; Probabilistic logic; Tensile stress; Transforms; Diffusion MRI; HARDI; ODF; OPDT;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2012 9th IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Barcelona
  • ISSN
    1945-7928
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1857-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISBI.2012.6235709
  • Filename
    6235709