Title
Heterogeneous Multifrequency Direct Inversion (HMDI) for magnetic resonance elastography with application to a clinical brain exam.
Abstract
•A novel, homogeneity accommodating direct inversion method for elastographic wave inversion (HMDI) is introduced and applied to Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE) data.•Multifrequency MRE is combined with SPM in a fully automated processing pipeline to obtain whole brain and white matter model-free stiffness and dispersion estimates.•The automatic elastograms show sharp boundaries and spatially resolved brain features without masking, median filtering or smoothing .•Two multifrequency MRE methods (HMDI and MDEV) are compared on a prospective 48-subject data set.•Both methods are sensitive to known age effects and internally consistent across frequencies.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.media.2018.03.003
Medical Image Analysis
Keywords
Field
DocType
Elastography,Magnetic resonance imaging,Magnetic resonance elastography,Viscoelasticity,Inverse problems
Biomedical engineering,Iterative reconstruction,Magnetic resonance elastography,Viscoelasticity,Homogeneity (statistics),Pattern recognition,Correlation,Inverse problem,Artificial intelligence,Elastography,Inverse transform sampling,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
46
1361-8415
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
8
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eric Barnhill182.19
Penny J. Davies2305.28
Cemre Ariyurek320.72
Andreas Fehlner420.72
Jürgen Braun5458.55
Ingolf Sack64610.33