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

2021

D. Giraldo, Sijbers, J., and Romero, E., “Quantification of cognitive impairment to characterize heterogeneity of patients at risk of developing Alzheimer's disease dementia”, Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, vol. 13, no. 1, p. e12237, 2021.
E. Ribeiro Sabidussi, Klein, S., Caan, M., Bazrafkan, S., den Dekker, A. J., Sijbers, J., Niessen, W. J., and Poot, D. H. J., “Recurrent Inference Machines as inverse problem solvers for MR relaxometry”, Medical Image Analysis, vol. 74, pp. 1-11, 2021.PDF icon Download paper (2.26 MB)
A. De Luca, Ianus, A., Leemans, A., Palombo, M., Shemesh, N., Zhang, H., Alexander, D. C., Nilsson, M., Froeling, M., Biessels, G. - J., Zucchelli, M., Frigo, M., Albay, E., Sedlar, S., Alimi, A., Deslauriers-Gauthier, S., Deriche, R., Fick, R., Afzali, M., Pieciak, T., Bogusz, F., Aja-Fernandez, S., Ozarslan, E., Jones, D. K., Chen, H., Jin, M., Zhang, Z., Wang, F., Nath, V., Parvathaneni, P., Morez, J., Sijbers, J., Jeurissen, B., Shreyas,, Fadnavis,, Endres, S., Rokem, A., Garyfallidis, E., Sanchez, I., Prchkovska, V., Rodrigues, P., Landman, B. A., and Schilling, K. G., “On the generalizability of diffusion MRI signal representations across acquisition parameters, sequences and tissue types: chronicles of the MEMENTO challenge”, NeuroImage, vol. 240, no. 118367, 2021.
M. Naeyaert, “Strategies for efficient acquisition and reconstruction of structural and quantitative MRI”, 2021.
H. R. P. Park, Verhelst, H., Quak, M., Jeurissen, B., and Krebs, R. M., “Associations between different white matter properties and reward-based performance modulation”, Brain Structure and Function, 2021.
S. Jillings, “The impact of long-duration spaceflight on brain structure and function”, University of Antwerp, 2021.
M. Naeyaert, Aelterman, J., Golkov, V., Cremers, D., Pizurica, A., Sijbers, J., and Verhoye, M., “Accelerating in vivo fast spin echo high angular resolution diffusion imaging with an isotropic resolution in mice through compressed sensing”, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, vol. 85, no. 3, pp. 1397-1413, 2021.
P. Van Dyck, Froeling, M., Heusdens, C. H. W., Sijbers, J., Ribbens, A., and Billiet, T., “Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament Following Primary Repair with Internal Bracing: a Longitudinal Study”, Journal of Orthopaedic Research , vol. 39, pp. 1318–1330, 2021.

2020

J. Morez, Sijbers, J., Vanhevel, F., and Jeurissen, B., “Constrained spherical deconvolution of non-spherically sampled diffusion MRI data”, Human Brain Mapping, vol. 42, pp. 521–538, 2020.PDF icon Download paper (5.87 MB)
S. Jillings, Van Ombergen, A., Tomilovskaya, E., Rumshiskaya, A., Litvinova, L., Nosikova, I., Pechenkova, E., Rukavishnikov, I., Kozlovskaya, I. B., Manko, O., Danilichev, S., Sunaert, S., Parizel, P. M., Sinitsyn, V., Petrovichev, V., Laureys, S., Eulenburg, Pzu, Sijbers, J., Wuyts, F. L., and Jeurissen, B., “Macro- and microstructural changes in cosmonauts’ brains after long-duration spaceflight”, Science Advances, vol. 6, no. 36, p. eaaz9488, 2020.PDF icon Download paper (942.53 KB)

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