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Q-Space quantitative diffusion MRI measures using a stretched-exponential representation

Pieciak, Tomasz, Afzali, Maryam, Bogusz, Fabian, Aja-Fernández, Santiago and Jones, Derek K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4409-8049 2021. Q-Space quantitative diffusion MRI measures using a stretched-exponential representation. Presented at: International MICCAI Workshop, Lima, Peru, Oct 2020. Published in: Gyori, Noemi, Hutter, Jana, Nath, Vishwesh and Palombo, Marco eds. Computational Diffusion MRI. Mathematics and Visualization Springer, pp. 121-133. 10.1007/978-3-030-73018-5_10

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Abstract

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) is a relatively modern technique used to study tissue microstructure in a non-invasive way. Non-Gaussian diffusion representation is related to the restricted diffusion and can provide information about the underlying tissue properties. In this paper, we analytically derive nth order statistics of the signal considering a stretched-exponential representation of the diffusion. Then, we retrieve the Q-space quantitative measures such as the Return-To-the-Origin Probability (RTOP), Q-space mean square displacement (QMSD), Q-space mean fourth-order displacement (QMFD). The stretched-exponential representation enables the handling of the diffusion contributions from a higher b-value regime under a non-Gaussian assumption, which can be useful in diagnosing or prognosis of neurodegenerative diseases in the early stages. Numerical implementation of the method is freely available at https://github.com/TPieciak/Stretched.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Date Type: Published Online
Status: Published
Schools: Psychology
Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC)
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9783030730178
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 28 October 2021
Date of Acceptance: 10 September 2020
Last Modified: 10 Nov 2022 09:56
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/145067

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