Importance of extended spatial coverage for quantitative susceptibility mapping of iron-rich deep gray matter

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• 作者：Ahmed M. Elkady ; Hongfu Sun ; Alan H. Wilman ; ^{wilman@ualberta.ca" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：Quantitative susceptibility mapping ; Field-of-view ; Basal ganglia ; Brain iron ; Deep gray matter
• 刊名：Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：May 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：34
• 期：4
• 页码：574-578
• 全文大小：609 K

文摘

Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) is an emerging area of brain research with clear application to brain iron studies in deep gray matter. However, acquisition of standard whole brain QSM can be time-consuming. One means to reduce scan time is to use a focal acquisition restricted only to the regions of interest such as deep gray matter. However, the non-local dipole field necessary for QSM reconstruction extends far beyond the structure of interest. We demonstrate the practical implications of these non-local fields on the choice of brain volume for QSM. In an illustrative numerical simulation and then in human brain experiments, we examine the effect on QSM of volume reduction in each dimension. For the globus pallidus, as an example of iron-rich deep gray matter, we demonstrate that substantial errors can arise even when the field-of-view far exceeds the physical structural boundaries. Thus, QSM reconstruction requires a non-local field-of-view prescription to ensure minimal errors. An axial QSM acquisition, centered on the globus pallidus, should encompass at least 76 mm in the superior–inferior direction to conserve susceptibility values from the globus pallidus. This dimension exceeds the physical coronal extent of this structure by at least five-fold. As QSM sees wider use in the neuroscience community, its unique requirement for an extended field-of-view needs to be considered.