Research progress of diffusion sensitive gradient field encoding schemes in magnetic resonance diffusion tensor imaging

Liu Liang-You; Gao Song; Li Sha; Li Zhao-Tong; Xia Yi-Fan

doi:10.7498/aps.69.20191346

Abstract

Magnetic resonance imaging is a medical imaging technique in which the phenomenon of nuclear magnetic resonance is used. This technique is widely used in clinical and scientific research at present. The diffusion of water molecules is isotropic in a homogeneous medium, while it is anisotropic in the structure of human tissue. Magnetic resonance diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is for studying the microscopic structure inside body by using the water molecules’ diffusion effect which will reduce the signal intensity of magnetic resonance. Besides, it can quantitatively study the anisotropy of water molecules in three-dimensional space, and thus acquiring important pathological and physiological information without invading in vivo. In order to obtain the accurate result of the anisotropic diffusion of water molecules, according to a certain scheme, it is necessary to sequentially use diffusion sensitive gradient (DSG) magnetic fields in different diffusion orientations to measure the diffusion coefficient of water molecules for estimating the diffusion tensor. The precision of estimating diffusion tensor is affected by the applied DSG encoding scheme, and it is usually necessary to use a large number of linearly independent and evenly spatial distributions of DSG magnetic fields in order to make the tensor measurement result more accurate. Diffusion spectroscopy imaging technique and high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) technique are proposed for more complex fiber bundles crossing in human tissue, one of which, HARDI, has higher requirement for the number and the direction distribution uniformity of DSGs. In this paper, the basic principle of DTI and the DSG encoding schemes are reviewed, which includes completely random scheme, heuristic scheme, regular polyhedral scheme, numerically optimized scheme, etc. For the above various schemes their respective advantages and limitations are analyzed. At present, the Golden Ratio method is to be used in a new spherical DSG encoding scheme which meets the requirements for HARDI and can offer more accurate tensor estimation results in face of the corruption of data sets encountered in clinical practice.

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Institute of Medical Technology, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China
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Research and Development Center of Medical Technology, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China

Corresponding author: Gao Song, gaoss@pku.edu.cn

Funds: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61671026) and Beijing Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 7202093)

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图 1 Stejskal-Tanner序列, 其中两个同等的DSG脉冲置于180°RF脉冲两侧, 强度为G, 宽度为δ, 时间间隔为Δ

Figure 1. Stejskal-Tanner Scheme: Two diffusion sensitive gradients inserted before and after 180° RF refocusing pulse. G, amplitude; δ, duration of the DSG; Δ, time between the two sensitive gradient lobes.

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图 2 随机分布60个方向DSG方向分布方案

Figure 2. DSG encoding scheme with random distribution in 60 directions.

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图 3 完全启发式13个方向DSG方向分布方案

Figure 3. DSG encoding scheme with heuristic distribution in 13 directions.

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图 4 二十面体31个方向DSG方向分布方案

Figure 4. DSG encoding scheme with icosahedron distribution in 31 directions.

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图 5 DISCOBALL 30个方向DSG方向分布方案

Figure 5. DSG encoding scheme with DISCOBALL distribution in 30 directions.

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图 6 球面螺旋分布60个方向DSG方向分布方案

Figure 6. DSG encoding scheme with spherical spiral distribution in 60 directions.

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图 7 两种Jones 60个方向DSG方向分布方案　(a) Jones方案; (b)排序的Jones方案

Figure 7. DSG encoding scheme with Jones (a) and Ordered Jones (b) in 60 directions

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