title: Isotropic non-white matter partial volume effects in constrained spherical deconvolution.
abstract: Diffusion-weighted (DW) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a non-invasive imaging method, which can be used to investigate neural tracts in the white matter (WM) of the brain. Significant partial volume effects (PVEs) are present in the DW signal due to relatively large voxel sizes. These PVEs can be caused by both non-WM tissue, such as gray matter (GM) and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), and by multiple non-parallel WM fiber populations. High angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) methods have been developed to correctly characterize complex WM fiber configurations, but to date, many of the HARDI methods do not account for non-WM PVEs. In this work, we investigated the isotropic PVEs caused by non-WM tissue in WM voxels on fiber orientations extracted with constrained spherical deconvolution (CSD). Experiments were performed on simulated and real DW-MRI data. In particular, simulations were performed to demonstrate the effects of varying the diffusion weightings, signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs), fiber configurations, and tissue fractions. Our results show that the presence of non-WM tissue signal causes a decrease in the precision of the detected fiber orientations and an increase in the detection of false peaks in CSD. We estimated 35-50% of WM voxels to be affected by non-WM PVEs. For HARDI sequences, which typically have a relatively high degree of diffusion weighting, these adverse effects are most pronounced in voxels with GM PVEs. The non-WM PVEs become severe with 50% GM volume for maximum spherical harmonics orders of 8 and below, and already with 25% GM volume for higher orders. In addition, a low diffusion weighting or SNR increases the effects. The non-WM PVEs may cause problems in connectomics, where reliable fiber tracking at the WM-GM interface is especially important. We suggest acquiring data with high diffusion-weighting 2500-3000 s/mm(2), reasonable SNR (~30) and using lower SH orders in GM contaminated regions to minimize the non-WM PVEs in CSD.
authors.affiliation: iMinds-Vision Lab, Department of Physics, University of Antwerp Antwerp, Belgium.
authors.forename: Timo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Roine
authors.affiliation: iMinds-Vision Lab, Department of Physics, University of Antwerp Antwerp, Belgium.
authors.forename: Ben
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Jeurissen
authors.affiliation: Ghent University-iMinds/Image Processing and Interpretation Ghent, Belgium.
authors.forename: Daniele
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Perrone
authors.affiliation: Ghent University-iMinds/Image Processing and Interpretation Ghent, Belgium.
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Aelterman
authors.affiliation: Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht Utrecht, Netherlands.
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Leemans
authors.affiliation: Ghent University-iMinds/Image Processing and Interpretation Ghent, Belgium.
authors.forename: Wilfried
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Philips
authors.affiliation: iMinds-Vision Lab, Department of Physics, University of Antwerp Antwerp, Belgium.
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sijbers
keywords: constrained spherical deconvolution; diffusion MRI; fiber orientation; gray matter; partial volume effect
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