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Mapping the human brainstem: Brain nuclei and fiber tracts at 3 T and 7 T.

Abstract：

:Structural high-resolution imaging of the brainstem can be of high importance in clinical practice. However, ultra-high field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is still restricted in use due to limited availability. Therefore, quantitative MRI techniques (quantitative susceptibility mapping [QSM], relaxation measurements [ R 2 * , R1 ], diffusion tensor imaging [DTI]) and T2 - and proton density (PD)-weighted imaging in the human brainstem at 3 T and 7 T are compared. Five healthy volunteers (mean age: 21.5 ± 1.9 years) were measured at 3 T and 7 T using multi-echo gradient echo sequences for susceptibility mapping and R 2 * relaxometry, magnetization-prepared 2 rapid acquisition gradient echo sequences for R1 relaxometry, turbo-spin echo sequences for PD- and T2 -weighted imaging and readout-segmented echo planar sequences for DTI. Susceptibility maps were computed using Laplacian-based phase unwrapping, V-SHARP for background field removal and the streaking artifact reduction for QSM algorithm for dipole inversion. Contrast-to-noise ratios (CNRs) were determined at 3 T and 7 T in ten volumes of interest (VOIs). Data acquired at 7 T showed higher CNR. However, in four VOIs, lower CNR was observed for R 2 * at 7 T. QSM was shown to be the contrast with which the highest number of structures could be identified. The depiction of very fine tracts such as the medial longitudinal fasciculus throughout the brainstem was only possible in susceptibility maps acquired at 7 T. DTI effectively showed the main tracts (crus cerebri, transverse pontine fibers, corticospinal tract, middle and superior cerebellar peduncle, pontocerebellar tract, and pyramid) at both field strengths. Assessing the brainstem with quantitative MRI methods such as QSM, R 2 * , as well as PD- and T2 -weighted imaging with great detail, is also possible at 3 T, especially when using susceptibility mapping calculated from a gradient echo sequence with a wide range of echo times from 10.5 to 52.5 ms. However, tracing smallest structures strongly benefits from imaging at ultra-high field.

journal_name

NMR Biomed

journal_title

NMR in biomedicine

authors

Straub S,Knowles BR,Flassbeck S,Steiger R,Ladd ME,Gizewski ER

doi

10.1002/nbm.4118

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-09-01 00:00:00

pages

e4118

issue

eissn

0952-3480

issn

1099-1492

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Mapping the human brainstem: Brain nuclei and fiber tracts at 3 T and 7 T.