Towards more robust and reproducible diffusion kurtosis imaging

Henriques, Rafael N., Jespersen, Sune N., Jones, Derek K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4409-8049 and Veraart, Jelle 2021. Towards more robust and reproducible diffusion kurtosis imaging. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 86 (3) , pp. 1600-1613. 10.1002/mrm.28730

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Abstract

Purpose The general utility of diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) is challenged by its poor robustness to imaging artifacts and thermal noise that often lead to implausible kurtosis values. Theory and Methods A robust scalar kurtosis index can be estimated from powder‐averaged diffusion‐weighted data. We introduce a novel DKI estimator that uses this scalar kurtosis index as a proxy for the mean kurtosis to regularize the fit. Results The regularized DKI estimator improves the robustness and reproducibility of the kurtosis metrics and results in parameter maps with enhanced quality and contrast. Conclusion Our novel DKI estimator promotes the wider use of DKI in clinical research and potentially diagnostics by improving the reproducibility and precision of DKI fitting and, as such, enabling enhanced visual, quantitative, and statistical analyses of DKI parameters.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC)
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	0740-3194
Funders:	Wellcome Trust
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	25 January 2021
Date of Acceptance:	24 January 2021
Last Modified:	11 May 2023 05:20
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/137930

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