Mbirn: Validation (quantitative analyses, publications)

Goals:
To validate our acquisition protocols and software correction tools with quantitative analyses that is published in peer reviewed journals.

Actions:

• T1-based morphometry

• • Evaluation of acquisition protocols, corrections and morphometry tools: reproducibility (SNR/CNR/GM/WM/CSF) and AD vs Control sensitivity (AD)
  • Unwarping manuscript (JJ)

• T2-based morphometry

• • Gathering of preliminary lesion reproducibibility data (JM, GG)

• Diffusion MRI- Acquisition parameter optimization

• • FA reproducibility: SNR, b-value, TE, #directions
  • Manuscript (to come, SNR, b-value)

• Diffusion MRI- Distortion correction minimization

• • Bo + eddy current correction manuscript (in progress)
  • Philips (JHU) implementation & comparisons: no-SENSE, SENSE

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