Dong-Hoon Lee1, Do-Wan Lee2, David Henry1, Hae-Jin Park3, Bong-Soo Han4, Dong-Cheol Woo5,6. 1. Faculty of Health Sciences and Brain & Mind Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. 2. Center for Bioimaging of New Drug Development, and MR Core Lab., Asan Institute for Life Sciences, Asan Medical Center, 88, Olympic-ro 43-gil, Songpa-gu, Seoul, 138-736, Republic of Korea. 3. Department of Radiation Oncology, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Gyeonggi, Republic of Korea. 4. Department of Radiological Science, College of Health Science, Yonsei University, 1 Yonseidae-gil, Wonju, Gangwon, 220-710, Republic of Korea. bshan@yonsei.ac.kr. 5. Center for Bioimaging of New Drug Development, and MR Core Lab., Asan Institute for Life Sciences, Asan Medical Center, 88, Olympic-ro 43-gil, Songpa-gu, Seoul, 138-736, Republic of Korea. dcwoo@amc.seoul.kr. 6. Department of Convergence Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea. dcwoo@amc.seoul.kr.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the effects of signal intensity differences between the b0 image and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in the image registration process. METHODS: To correct signal intensity differences between the b0 image and DTI data, a simple image intensity compensation (SIMIC) method, which is a b0 image re-calculation process from DTI data, was applied before the image registration. The re-calculated b0 image (b0ext) from each diffusion direction was registered to the b0 image acquired through the MR scanning (b0nd) with two types of cost functions and their transformation matrices were acquired. These transformation matrices were then used to register the DTI data. For quantifications, the dice similarity coefficient (DSC) values, diffusion scalar matrix, and quantified fibre numbers and lengths were calculated. RESULTS: The combined SIMIC method with two cost functions showed the highest DSC value (0.802 ± 0.007). Regarding diffusion scalar values and numbers and lengths of fibres from the corpus callosum, superior longitudinal fasciculus, and cortico-spinal tract, only using normalised cross correlation (NCC) showed a specific tendency toward lower values in the brain regions. CONCLUSION: Image-based distortion correction with SIMIC for DTI data would help in image analysis by accounting for signal intensity differences as one additional option for DTI analysis. KEY POINTS: • We evaluated the effects of signal intensity differences at DTI registration. • The non-diffusion-weighted image re-calculation process from DTI data was applied. • SIMIC can minimise the signal intensity differences at DTI registration.
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the effects of signal intensity differences between the b0 image and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in the image registration process. METHODS: To correct signal intensity differences between the b0 image and DTI data, a simple image intensity compensation (SIMIC) method, which is a b0 image re-calculation process from DTI data, was applied before the image registration. The re-calculated b0 image (b0ext) from each diffusion direction was registered to the b0 image acquired through the MR scanning (b0nd) with two types of cost functions and their transformation matrices were acquired. These transformation matrices were then used to register the DTI data. For quantifications, the dice similarity coefficient (DSC) values, diffusion scalar matrix, and quantified fibre numbers and lengths were calculated. RESULTS: The combined SIMIC method with two cost functions showed the highest DSC value (0.802 ± 0.007). Regarding diffusion scalar values and numbers and lengths of fibres from the corpus callosum, superior longitudinal fasciculus, and cortico-spinal tract, only using normalised cross correlation (NCC) showed a specific tendency toward lower values in the brain regions. CONCLUSION: Image-based distortion correction with SIMIC for DTI data would help in image analysis by accounting for signal intensity differences as one additional option for DTI analysis. KEY POINTS: • We evaluated the effects of signal intensity differences at DTI registration. • The non-diffusion-weighted image re-calculation process from DTI data was applied. • SIMIC can minimise the signal intensity differences at DTI registration.
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