Improved susceptibility-weighted imaging for high contrast and resolution thalamic nuclei mapping at 7T.
field tracking
motion correction
susceptibility-weighted imaging
thalamic nuclei
vein segmentation
Journal
Magnetic resonance in medicine
ISSN: 1522-2594
Titre abrégé: Magn Reson Med
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8505245
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
09 2020
09 2020
Historique:
received:
10
06
2019
revised:
10
01
2020
accepted:
13
01
2020
pubmed:
14
2
2020
medline:
15
5
2021
entrez:
14
2
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The thalamus is an important brain structure and neurosurgical target, but its constituting nuclei are challenging to image non-invasively. Recently, susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) at ultra-high field has shown promising capabilities for thalamic nuclei mapping. In this work, several methodological improvements were explored to enhance SWI quality and contrast, and specifically its ability for thalamic imaging. High-resolution SWI was performed at 7T in healthy participants, and the following techniques were applied: (a) monitoring and retrospective correction of head motion and B Even with sub-millimeter motion and natural breathing, motion and field correction produced clear improvements in both magnitude and phase data quality (76% and 41%, respectively). The improvements were stronger in cases of larger motion/field deviations, mitigating the dependence of image quality on subject performance. Optimizing the SWI phase-magnitude combination yielded substantial improvements in image contrast, particularly in the thalamus, well beyond previously reported SWI results. The atlas comparisons provided compelling evidence of anatomical correspondence between SWI features and several thalamic nuclei, for example, the ventral intermediate nucleus. Vein detection performed favorably inside the thalamus, and vein removal further improved visualization. Altogether, the proposed developments substantially improve high-resolution SWI, particularly for thalamic nuclei imaging.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1218-1234Informations de copyright
© 2020 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
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