Estimating head-motion and deformations derived from eddy-currents in diffusion MRI data.
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Retrospective estimation of head-motion between diffusion-weighted images (DWI) acquired within
diffusion MRI (dMRI) experiments renders exceptionally challenging1 for datasets including
high-diffusivity (or “high b”) images.
These “high b” (b > 1000s/mm2) DWIs enable higher angular resolution, as compared to more traditional
diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) schemes.
UNDISTORT [#r1] (Using NonDistorted Images to Simulate a Template Of the Registration Target)
was the earliest method addressing this issue, by simulating a target DW image without motion
or distortion from a DTI (b=1000s/mm2) scan of the same subject.
Later, Andersson and Sotiropoulos [#r2] proposed a similar approach (widely available within the
FSL eddy tool), by predicting the target DW image to be registered from the remainder of the
dMRI dataset and modeled with a Gaussian process.
Besides the need for less data, eddy has the advantage of implicitly modeling distortions due
to Eddy currents.
More recently, Cieslak et al. [#r3] integrated both approaches in SHORELine, by
(i) setting up a leave-one-out prediction framework as in eddy; and
(ii) replacing eddy’s general-purpose Gaussian process prediction with the SHORE [#r4] diffusion model.
Eddymotion is an open implementation of eddy-current and head-motion correction that builds upon
the work of eddy and SHORELine, while generalizing these methods to multiple acquisition schemes
(single-shell, multi-shell, and diffusion spectrum imaging) using diffusion models available with DIPY [#r5]_.
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.. [#r1] S. Ben-Amitay et al., Motion correction and registration of high b-value diffusion weighted images, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 67:1694–1702 (2012) .. [#r2] J. L. R. Andersson. et al., An integrated approach to correction for off-resonance effects and subject movement in diffusion MR imaging, NeuroImage 125 (2016) 1063–1078 .. [#r3] M. Cieslak et al., QSIPrep: An integrative platform for preprocessing and reconstructing diffusion MRI data. Nature Methods, 18(7), 775–778 (2021) .. [#r4] E. Ozarslan et al., Simple Harmonic Oscillator Based Reconstruction and Estimation for Three-Dimensional Q-Space MRI. in Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. vol. 17 1396 (2009) .. [#r5] E. Garyfallidis et al., Dipy, a library for the analysis of diffusion MRI data. Front. Neuroinformatics 8, 8 (2014)