Joint Total Variation ESTATICS for Robust Multi-Parameter Mapping

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14247v1
• Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 19:08:42 GMT
• Title: Joint Total Variation ESTATICS for Robust Multi-Parameter Mapping
• Authors: Ya\"el Balbastre, Mikael Brudfors, Michela Azzarito, Christian Lambert, Martina F. Callaghan, John Ashburner
• Abstract summary: ESTATICS performs a joint loglinear fit of multiple echo series to extract R2* and multiple extrapolated intercepts. We evaluate the proposed algorithm by predicting left-out echoes in a rich single-subject dataset.
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• Abstract: Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (qMRI) derives tissue-specific parameters -- such as the apparent transverse relaxation rate R2*, the longitudinal relaxation rate R1 and the magnetisation transfer saturation -- that can be compared across sites and scanners and carry important information about the underlying microstructure. The multi-parameter mapping (MPM) protocol takes advantage of multi-echo acquisitions with variable flip angles to extract these parameters in a clinically acceptable scan time. In this context, ESTATICS performs a joint loglinear fit of multiple echo series to extract R2* and multiple extrapolated intercepts, thereby improving robustness to motion and decreasing the variance of the estimators. In this paper, we extend this model in two ways: (1) by introducing a joint total variation (JTV) prior on the intercepts and decay, and (2) by deriving a nonlinear maximum \emph{a posteriori} estimate. We evaluated the proposed algorithm by predicting left-out echoes in a rich single-subject dataset. In this validation, we outperformed other state-of-the-art methods and additionally showed that the proposed approach greatly reduces the variance of the estimated maps, without introducing bias.

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