6-8 juin 2017 Fréjus (France)
Spatio-Temporal dMRI Acquisition Design: Reducing the Number of qt-Samples Through a Relaxed Probabilistic Model
Patryk Filipiak  1@  , Rutger Fick, Alexandra Petiet, Mathieu Santin, Anne-Charlotte Philippe, Stephane Lehericy, Rachid Deriche, Demian Wassermann@
1 : INRIA Sophia Antipolis-Méditerranée

Acquisition time is a major limitation in recovering brain microstructure with diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Finding a sampling scheme that maximizes signal quality and satisfies given time constraints is NP-hard. We alleviate that by introducing a relaxed probabilistic model of the problem, for which nearly-optimal solutions can be found effectively. Our model is defined in the qt-space, so that it captures both spacial and temporal phenomena. The experiments on in-vivo diffusion images of the C57Bl6 wild-type mice reveal superiority of our technique over random sampling and even distribution in the qt-space.


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