{"id":3935,"date":"2025-04-13T17:34:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T22:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/masi\/?p=3935"},"modified":"2025-04-14T08:33:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T13:33:45","slug":"comparison-and-calibration-of-mp2rage-quantitative-t1-values-to-multi-ti-inversion-recovery-t1-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/masi\/2025\/04\/comparison-and-calibration-of-mp2rage-quantitative-t1-values-to-multi-ti-inversion-recovery-t1-values\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparison and calibration of MP2RAGE quantitative T1 values to multi-TI inversion recovery T1 values"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adam M. Saunders, Michael E. Kim, Chenyu Gao, Lucas W. Remedios, Aravind R. Krishnan, Kurt G. Schilling, Kristin P. O\u2019Grady, Seth A. Smith, and Bennett A. Landman. Comparison and calibration of MP2RAGE quantitative T1 values to multi-TI inversion recovery T1 values. <em>Magnetic Resonance Imaging<\/em>, 2025; 117:110322. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.mri.2025.110322\">https:\/\/doi.org\/<span class=\"link-annotation-unknown-block-id--142533380\">10.1016\/j.mri.2025.110322.<\/span><\/a><!-- notionvc: a523eb88-831b-405f-b8eb-b734625dfcec --><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3936 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2304\/2025\/04\/ada3425d-6d00-44c4-b77b-4da7d530b696.jpg\" alt=\"There are two slices of brains showing differences in quantitative T1 between MP2RAGE and multi-TI inversion recovery. A patch-based correction model reduces the relative value.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2304\/2025\/04\/ada3425d-6d00-44c4-b77b-4da7d530b696.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2304\/2025\/04\/ada3425d-6d00-44c4-b77b-4da7d530b696-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2304\/2025\/04\/ada3425d-6d00-44c4-b77b-4da7d530b696-650x325.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2304\/2025\/04\/ada3425d-6d00-44c4-b77b-4da7d530b696-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p>While typical qualitative T1-weighted magnetic resonance images reflect scanner and protocol differences, quantitative T1 mapping aims to measure T1 independent of these effects. Changes in T1 in the brain reflect structural changes in brain tissue. Magnetization-prepared two rapid acquisition gradient echo (MP2RAGE) is an acquisition protocol that allows for efficient T1 mapping with a much lower scan time per slab compared to multi-TI inversion recovery (IR) protocols. We collect and register B1-corrected MP2RAGE acquisitions with an additional inversion time (MP3RAGE) alongside multi-TI selective inversion recovery acquisitions for four subjects. We use a maximum a posteriori (MAP) T1 estimation method for both MP2RAGE and compare to typical point estimate MP2RAGE T1 mapping, finding no bias from MAP MP2RAGE but a sensitivity to B1+ inhomogeneities with MAP MP3RAGE. We demonstrate a tissue-dependent bias between MAP MP2RAGE T1 estimates and the multi-TI inversion recovery T1 values. To correct this bias, we train a patch-based ResNet-18 to calibrate the MAP MP2RAGE T1 estimates to the multi-TI IR T1 values. Across four folds, our network reduces the RMSE significantly (white matter: from 0.30 \u00b1 0.01 s to 0.11 \u00b1 0.02 s, subcortical gray matter: from 0.26 \u00b1 0.02 s to 0.10 \u00b1 0.02 s, cortical gray matter: from 0.36 \u00b1 0.02 s to 0.17 \u00b1 0.03 s). Using limited paired training data from both sequences, we can reduce the error between quantitative imaging methods and calibrate to one of the protocols with a neural network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam M. Saunders, Michael E. Kim, Chenyu Gao, Lucas W. Remedios, Aravind R. Krishnan, Kurt G. Schilling, Kristin P. O\u2019Grady, Seth A. Smith, and Bennett A. Landman. Comparison and calibration of MP2RAGE quantitative T1 values to multi-TI inversion recovery T1 values. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 2025; 117:110322. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.mri.2025.110322. Abstract While typical qualitative T1-weighted magnetic resonance images&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9898,"featured_media":3936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,116,82,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deep-learning","category-image-processing","category-magnetic-resonance-imaging","category-neuroimaging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/masi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/masi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/masi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/masi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/masi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3935"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/masi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3951,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/masi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935\/revisions\/3951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/masi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/masi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/masi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/masi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}