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| author | Lan, Patricia Huang, Sherry S. Bhushan, Chitresh Wang, Xinzeng Lee, Seung-Kyun Huang, Raymond Y. Maller, Jerome J. McNab, Jennifer A. Zhu, Ante |
| author_facet | Lan, Patricia Huang, Sherry S. Bhushan, Chitresh Wang, Xinzeng Lee, Seung-Kyun Huang, Raymond Y. Maller, Jerome J. McNab, Jennifer A. Zhu, Ante |
| contents | The purpose of this study is to propose a brain tissue-selective, optimized slice-by-slice B0 field shimming for high-resolution brain diffusion MRI. We incorporated actual gradient fields of X, Y, and Z gradient coils in the calculation of the shimming coefficients in dynamic slice-by-slice B0 field shimming to minimize B0 field inhomogeneity (i.e., Delta B0) in deep-learning segmented brain tissues. Diffusion MRI with oscillating gradient spin echo (OGSE) at 55 Hz and pulsed gradient spin echo (PGSE) (approximated at 0 Hz) were obtained in phantoms and healthy volunteers using a head-only high-performance gradient 3T MRI system. In each diffusion MRI acquisition, standard static volumetric shimming and the proposed shimming method were applied separately, and mean/axial/radial diffusivities (MD/AD/RD) and fractional anisotropy (FA) were estimated. In phantom, the root-mean-square of Delta B0 in areas with high gradient nonlinearity was reduced by 7 Hz when incorporating actual gradient field in dynamic shimming. Compared to static shimming, dynamic shimming reduced root-mean-square of voxel displacement of each slice by a maximum of 5-10 voxels in single-shot EPI acquisition at 1-2 mm in-plane resolution in phantom, and a maximum of 3 voxels in human brains. Improved accuracy of MD/AD/RD/FA in the superior region of the brain, brainstem, and cerebellum were observed by applying dynamic shimming and/or two-shot EPI acquisition. MD(55 Hz)-MD(0 Hz) showed higher values in T2 FSE hypo-intensity region by applying dynamic shimming. We concluded that diffusion MRI with brain tissue-selective, dynamic slice-by-slice B0 effectively improves the accuracy of diffusivity characterization in high-resolution images. |
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| spellingShingle | Human brain high-resolution diffusion MRI with optimized slice-by-slice B0 field shimming in head-only high-performance gradient MRI systems Lan, Patricia Huang, Sherry S. Bhushan, Chitresh Wang, Xinzeng Lee, Seung-Kyun Huang, Raymond Y. Maller, Jerome J. McNab, Jennifer A. Zhu, Ante Medical Physics The purpose of this study is to propose a brain tissue-selective, optimized slice-by-slice B0 field shimming for high-resolution brain diffusion MRI. We incorporated actual gradient fields of X, Y, and Z gradient coils in the calculation of the shimming coefficients in dynamic slice-by-slice B0 field shimming to minimize B0 field inhomogeneity (i.e., Delta B0) in deep-learning segmented brain tissues. Diffusion MRI with oscillating gradient spin echo (OGSE) at 55 Hz and pulsed gradient spin echo (PGSE) (approximated at 0 Hz) were obtained in phantoms and healthy volunteers using a head-only high-performance gradient 3T MRI system. In each diffusion MRI acquisition, standard static volumetric shimming and the proposed shimming method were applied separately, and mean/axial/radial diffusivities (MD/AD/RD) and fractional anisotropy (FA) were estimated. In phantom, the root-mean-square of Delta B0 in areas with high gradient nonlinearity was reduced by 7 Hz when incorporating actual gradient field in dynamic shimming. Compared to static shimming, dynamic shimming reduced root-mean-square of voxel displacement of each slice by a maximum of 5-10 voxels in single-shot EPI acquisition at 1-2 mm in-plane resolution in phantom, and a maximum of 3 voxels in human brains. Improved accuracy of MD/AD/RD/FA in the superior region of the brain, brainstem, and cerebellum were observed by applying dynamic shimming and/or two-shot EPI acquisition. MD(55 Hz)-MD(0 Hz) showed higher values in T2 FSE hypo-intensity region by applying dynamic shimming. We concluded that diffusion MRI with brain tissue-selective, dynamic slice-by-slice B0 effectively improves the accuracy of diffusivity characterization in high-resolution images. |
| title | Human brain high-resolution diffusion MRI with optimized slice-by-slice B0 field shimming in head-only high-performance gradient MRI systems |
| topic | Medical Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03586 |