Correction for fast pseudo-diffusive fluid motion contaminations in diffusion tensor imaging |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland;2. Siemens Healthcare AG, Zurich, Switzerland;1. Department of Medicine–Section of Cardiology, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA;2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA;3. Department of Radiology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany;4. Department of Internal Medicine/Cardiology, German Heart Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany;5. Department of Cardiology, Charité-University-Medicine Berlin, Germany;6. DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Partner Site Berlin, Germany |
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| Abstract: | In this prospective study, we quantified the fast pseudo-diffusion contamination by blood perfusion or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) intravoxel incoherent movements on the measurement of the diffusion tensor metrics in healthy brain tissue.Diffusion-weighted imaging (TR/TE = 4100 ms/90 ms; b-values: 0, 5, 10, 20, 35, 55, 80, 110, 150, 200, 300, 500, 750, 1000, 1300 s/mm2, 20 diffusion-encoding directions) was performed on a cohort of five healthy volunteers at 3 Tesla. The projections of the diffusion tensor along each diffusion-encoding direction were computed using a two b-value approach (2b), by fitting the signal to a monoexponential curve (mono), and by correcting for fast pseudo-diffusion compartments using the biexponential intravoxel incoherent motion model (IVIM) (bi). Fractional anisotropy (FA) and mean diffusivity (MD) of the diffusion tensor were quantified in regions of interest drawn over white matter areas, gray matter areas, and the ventricles.A significant dependence of the MD from the evaluation method was found in all selected regions. A lower MD was computed when accounting for the fast-diffusion compartments. A larger dependence was found in the nucleus caudatus (bi: median 0.86 10?3 mm2/s, Δ2b: ?11.2%, Δmono: ?14.4%; p = 0.007), in the anterior horn (bi: median 2.04 10?3 mm2/s, Δ2b: ?9.4%, Δmono: ?11.5%, p = 0.007) and in the posterior horn of the lateral ventricles (bi: median 2.47 10?3 mm2/s, Δ2b: ?5.5%, Δmono: ?11.7%; p = 0.007). Also for the FA, the signal modeling affected the computation of the anisotropy metrics. The deviation depended on the evaluated region with significant differences mainly in the nucleus caudatus (bi: median 0.15, Δ2b: +39.3%, Δmono: +14.7%; p = 0.022) and putamen (bi: median 0.19, Δ2b: +3.1%, Δmono: +17.3%; p = 0.015).Fast pseudo-diffusive regimes locally affect diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) metrics in the brain. Here, we propose the use of an IVIM-based method for correction of signal contaminations through CSF or perfusion. |
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