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An Information Theory Model For Optimizing Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging Acquisitions, Drew Mitchell
An Information Theory Model For Optimizing Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging Acquisitions, Drew Mitchell
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Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (qMRI) is a powerful group of imaging techniques with a growing number of clinical applications, including synthetic image generation in post-processing, automatic segmentation, and diagnosis of disease from quantitative parameter values. Currently, acquisition parameter selection is performed empirically for quantitative MRI. Tuning parameters for different scan times, tissues, and resolutions requires some measure of trial and error. There is an opportunity to quantitatively optimize these acquisition parameters in order to maximize image quality and the reliability of the previously mentioned methods which follow image acquisition.
The objective of this work is to introduce and evaluate a …