Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the Kidney: Design and Evaluation of a Reliable Processing Pipeline.

ABSTRACT: Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is particularly suitable for kidney studies due to tubules, collector ducts and blood vessels in the medulla that produce spatially restricted diffusion of water molecules, thus reflecting the high grade of anisotropy detectable by DTI. Kidney DTI is still a challenging technique where the off-resonance susceptibility artefacts and subject motion can severely affect the reproducibility of results. The aim of this study is to design a reliable processing pipeline by assessing different image processing approaches in terms of reproducibility and image artefacts correction. The results of four different processing pipelines (eddy: correction of eddy-currents and motion between DTI volume; eddy-s2v: eddy and within DTI volume motion correction; topup: eddy and ge

SUBMITTER: Borrelli P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6726597 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature