Accelerated acquisition schemes for quantitative MRI In medical collaboration with: Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry In academic collaboration with: Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC) Scientific Director: Prof. Dr. Bjoern Menze Contact Person(s): Pedro Gómez In industrial collaboration with: GE Global Research

Keywords: IBBM: image acquisition

Abstract

Recent advances in MRI enable the quantification of microstructural properties of cerebral matter. These biological properties deepen our understanding of the brain in both health and disease and could assess the early onset of neurological disorders. Despite its potential, current applications are still limited by long acquisition times and low data quality. Doctoral research focuses on addressing these limitations by developing novel; accelerated acquisition schemes for quantitative MR imaging of the brain. Work evolves around developing techniques that effectively reduce scan times without compromising data quality and still capturing the most important aspects of cerebral matter.

Pictures

Figure 1: By combining accelerated acquisitions, such as MR Fingerprinting (Ma et al., Nature, 2013), with machine learning techniques, it is possible to simultaneously map multiple parameters and compute tissue labels from a single, fast scan (Gómez et al., MICCAI, 2016).

Team

Contact Person(s)

Dr. Pedro Gómez

Working Group

Prof. Bjoern Menze

Dr. Miguel Molina Romero

Dr. Pedro Gómez

Location

Technische Universität München Institut für Informatik / I16 Boltzmannstr. 3 85748 Garching bei München Tel.: +49 89 289-17058 Fax: +49 89 289-17059

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