4D iterative reconstruction of brain fMRI in the moving fetus

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Main Authors: Taymourtash, Athena, Kebiri, Hamza, Tourbier, Sébastien, Schwartz, Ernst, Nenning, Karl-Heinz, Licandro, Roxane, Sobotka, Daniel, Lajous, Hélène, de Dumast, Priscille, Cuadra, Meritxell Bach, Langs, Georg
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author Taymourtash, Athena
Kebiri, Hamza
Tourbier, Sébastien
Schwartz, Ernst
Nenning, Karl-Heinz
Licandro, Roxane
Sobotka, Daniel
Lajous, Hélène
de Dumast, Priscille
Cuadra, Meritxell Bach
Langs, Georg
author_facet Taymourtash, Athena
Kebiri, Hamza
Tourbier, Sébastien
Schwartz, Ernst
Nenning, Karl-Heinz
Licandro, Roxane
Sobotka, Daniel
Lajous, Hélène
de Dumast, Priscille
Cuadra, Meritxell Bach
Langs, Georg
contents Resting-state functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is a powerful imaging technique for studying functional development of the brain in utero. However, unpredictable and excessive movement of fetuses has limited clinical application since it causes substantial signal fluctuations which can systematically alter observed patterns of functional connectivity. Previous studies have focused on the accurate estimation of the motion parameters in case of large fetal head movement and used a 3D single step interpolation approach at each timepoint to recover motion-free fMRI images. This does not guarantee that the reconstructed image corresponds to the minimum error representation of fMRI time series given the acquired data. Here, we propose a novel technique based on four dimensional iterative reconstruction of the scattered slices acquired during fetal fMRI. The accuracy of the proposed method was quantitatively evaluated on a group of real clinical fMRI fetuses. The results indicate improvements of reconstruction quality compared to the conventional 3D interpolation approach.
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spellingShingle 4D iterative reconstruction of brain fMRI in the moving fetus
Taymourtash, Athena
Kebiri, Hamza
Tourbier, Sébastien
Schwartz, Ernst
Nenning, Karl-Heinz
Licandro, Roxane
Sobotka, Daniel
Lajous, Hélène
de Dumast, Priscille
Cuadra, Meritxell Bach
Langs, Georg
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Medical Physics
Resting-state functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is a powerful imaging technique for studying functional development of the brain in utero. However, unpredictable and excessive movement of fetuses has limited clinical application since it causes substantial signal fluctuations which can systematically alter observed patterns of functional connectivity. Previous studies have focused on the accurate estimation of the motion parameters in case of large fetal head movement and used a 3D single step interpolation approach at each timepoint to recover motion-free fMRI images. This does not guarantee that the reconstructed image corresponds to the minimum error representation of fMRI time series given the acquired data. Here, we propose a novel technique based on four dimensional iterative reconstruction of the scattered slices acquired during fetal fMRI. The accuracy of the proposed method was quantitatively evaluated on a group of real clinical fMRI fetuses. The results indicate improvements of reconstruction quality compared to the conventional 3D interpolation approach.
title 4D iterative reconstruction of brain fMRI in the moving fetus
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Medical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.11394