Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a biomedical imaging technique used to visualize detailed internal structures. The Quantitative MRI group of the Vision Lab develops novel reconstruction, processing and analysis algorithms to process anatomical, functional or diffusion-weighted MRI data. These methods rely on profound knowledge of the MR imaging principles. The core competence of the group is quantitative, statistical parameter estimation, which is the basis for developing novel techniques for image reconstruction, image denoising, higher order diffusion parameter estimation (DTI, DKI, ...), and fiber tractography.

Journal publications

2013

L. Emsell, Leemans, A., Langan, C., Van Hecke, W., Barker, G. J., McCarthy, P., Jeurissen, B., Sijbers, J., Sunaert, S., Cannon, D. M., and McDonald, C., “Limbic and callosal white matter changes in euthymic bipolar I disorder: an advanced diffusion MRI tractography study”, Biologicial Psychiatry, vol. 73, no. 2, pp. 194-201, 2013.
T. De Bondt, Van Hecke, W., Veraart, J., Leemans, A., Sijbers, J., Sunaert, S., Jacquemyn, Y., and Parizel, P. M., “Does the use of hormonal contraceptives cause microstructural changes in cerebral white matter? Preliminary results of a DTI and tractography study.”, European radiology, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 57-64, 2013.PDF icon Download paper (411.18 KB)
B. Jeurissen, Leemans, A., Tournier, J. - D., Jones, D. K., and Sijbers, J., “Investigating the prevalence of complex fiber configurations in white matter tissue with diffusion magnetic resonance imaging.”, Human Brain Mapping, vol. 34, pp. 2747-66, 2013.
D. H. J. Poot, Jeurissen, B., Bastiaensen, Y., Veraart, J., Van Hecke, W., Parizel, P. M., and Sijbers, J., “Super-Resolution for Multislice Diffusion Tensor Imaging”, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 103–113, 2013.PDF icon Download paper (1.04 MB)

2012

Y. D. Reijmer, Leemans, A., Heringa, S. M., Wielaard, I., Jeurissen, B., Koek, H. L., and Biessels, G. J., “Improved sensitivity to cerebral white matter abnormalities in Alzheimer's disease with spherical deconvolution based tractography.”, PloS one, vol. 7, no. 8, p. e44074, 2012.
J. Rajan, “Estimation and removal of noise from single and multiple coil Magnetic Resonance images”, 2012.PDF icon Download thesis (3.23 MB)
I. Blockx, Verhoye, M., Van Audekerke, J., Bergwerf, I., Kane, J. X., Delgado Y Palacios, R., Veraart, J., Jeurissen, B., Raber, K., Von Hörsten, S., Ponsaerts, P., Sijbers, J., Leergaard, T. B., and Van Der Linden, A., “Identification and characterization of Huntington related pathology: an in vivo DKI imaging study”, NeuroImage, vol. 63, no. 2, pp. 653-662, 2012.
J. Rajan, Veraart, J., Van Audekerke, J., Verhoye, M., and Sijbers, J., “Nonlocal maximum likelihood estimation method for denoising multiple-coil magnetic resonance images”, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, vol. 30, no. 10, pp. 1512-1518, 2012.PDF icon Download full paper (1.11 MB)
Z. Mai, “Advances in the quality and resolution improvement of Magnetic Resonance images”, 2012.
B. Jeurissen, “Improved analysis of brain connectivity using high angular resolution diffusion MRI”, University of Antwerp, 2012.PDF icon Download thesis book (35.42 MB)

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