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Data-driven myelin water imaging based on T-1 and T-2 relaxometry

Tobias Kober, Tom Hilbert, Erick Jorge Canales Rodriguez, Marco Pizzolato

Long acquisition times preclude the application of multiecho spin echo (MESE) sequences for myelin water fraction (MWF) mapping in daily clinical practice. In search of alternative methods, previous studies of interest explored the biophysical modeling of ...

WILEY2021

Revisiting the T-2 spectrum imaging inverse problem: Bayesian regularized non-negative least squares

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Tobias Kober, Tom Hilbert, Erick Jorge Canales Rodriguez, Marco Pizzolato, Thomas Yu

Multi-echo T-2 magnetic resonance images contain information about the distribution of T-2 relaxation times of compartmentalized water, from which we can estimate relevant brain tissue properties such as the myelin water fraction (MWF). Regularized non-neg ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2021

Variability and reproducibility of multi-echo T2 relaxometry: Insights from multi-site, multi-session and multi-subject MRI acquisitions

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Tobias Kober, Elda Fischi Gomez, Alessandro Daducci, Tom Hilbert, Elena Beanato, Gabriel Girard, Julia Brügger, Gian Franco Piredda, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Takuya Morishita, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Philipp Johannes Koch, Erick Jorge Canales Rodriguez, Marco Pizzolato, Andéol Geoffroy Cadic-Melchior, Thomas Yu, Chang-Hyun Park

Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (qMRI) can increase the specificity and sensitivity of conventional weighted MRI to underlying pathology by comparing meaningful physical or chemical parameters, measured in physical units, with normative values acqu ...

2022

Periventricular gradient of T1 tissue alterations in multiple sclerosis

Bénédicte Marie Maréchal, Tobias Kober, Tom Hilbert, Veronica Lily Ravano, Gian Franco Piredda

Objective: Pathology in multiple sclerosis is not homogenously distributed. Recently, it has been shown that structures adjacent to CSF are more severely affected. A gradient of brain tissue involvement was shown with more severe pathology in periventricul ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Individually optimized dynamic parallel transmit pulses for 3D high‐resolution SPACE imaging at 7T

Bénédicte Marie Maréchal, Tom Hilbert, Emilie Claire Sleight, Jocelyn Philippe, Thomas Yu, Tommaso Di Noto, Lina Bacha, Natalia Pato Montemayor

Purpose: Although clinical 7T MRI offers various advantages compared to lower field strengths, achieving spatially uniform flip angle distributions remains a challenge. Sampling Perfection with Application optimized Contrast using different flip angle Evol ...

Wiley2025

Advancing Thalamic Nuclei Segmentation: The Impact of Compressed Sensing on MRI Processing

Tobias Kober, Tom Hilbert

The thalamus is a collection of gray matter nuclei that play a crucial role in sensorimotor processing and modulation of cortical activity. Characterizing thalamic nuclei non-invasively with structural MRI is particularly relevant for patient populations w ...

Wiley2024

Submillimeter T-1 atlas for subject-specific abnormality detection at 7T

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Bénédicte Marie Maréchal, Tobias Kober, Tom Hilbert, Ricardo Alberto Corredor Jerez, Gian Franco Piredda, Samuele Caneschi

Purpose: Studies at 3T have shown that T-1 relaxometry enables characterization of brain tissues at the single-subject level by comparing individual physical properties to a normative atlas. In this work, an atlas of normative T-1 values at 7T is introduce ...

WILEY2022

Model-based super-resolution reconstruction of T-2 maps

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Reto Meuli, Mohammad Golbabaee, Tobias Kober, Tom Hilbert, Gian Franco Piredda

Purpose High-resolution isotropic T-2 mapping of the human brain with multi-echo spin-echo (MESE) acquisitions is challenging. When using a 2D sequence, the resolution is limited by the slice thickness. If used as a 3D acquisition, specific absorption rate ...

Wiley2020

Evaluating reproducibility and subject-specificity of microstructure-informed connectivity

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Tobias Kober, Elda Fischi Gomez, Tom Hilbert, Elena Beanato, Gabriel Girard, Julia Brügger, Gian Franco Piredda, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Takuya Morishita, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Philipp Johannes Koch, Erick Jorge Canales Rodriguez, Marco Pizzolato, Andéol Geoffroy Cadic-Melchior, Chang-Hyun Park

Tractography enables identifying and evaluating the healthy and diseased brain's white matter pathways from diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging data. As previous evaluation studies have reported significant false-positive estimation biases, recen ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2022

Model-informed machine learning for multi-component T2 relaxometry

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Meritxell Bach Cuadra, Tobias Kober, Elda Fischi Gomez, Cristina Granziera, Tom Hilbert, Muhamed Barakovic, Gian Franco Piredda, Erick Jorge Canales Rodriguez, Marco Pizzolato, Thomas Yu

Recovering the distribution from multi-echo magnetic resonance (MR) signals is challenging but has high potential as it provides biomarkers characterizing the tissue micro-structure, such as the myelin water fraction (MWF). In this work, we propose to comb ...

2020

Quantitative brain relaxation atlases for personalized detection and characterization of brain pathology

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Reto Meuli, Guillaume Bonnier, Tobias Kober, Cristina Granziera, Tom Hilbert, Gian Franco Piredda

Purpose To exploit the improved comparability and hardware independency of quantitative MRI, databases of MR physical parameters in healthy tissue are required, to which tissue properties of patients can be compared. In this work, normative values for long ...

WILEY2020

Quantifying brain development in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study: The magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy protocol

Tobias Kober, Tom Hilbert

The HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study, a multi-site prospective longitudinal cohort study, will examine human brain, cognitive, behavioral, social, and emotional development beginning prenatally and planned through early childhood. The acqui ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2024

Probing myelin content of the human brain with MRI: A review

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Tobias Kober, Tom Hilbert, Gian Franco Piredda

Rapid and efficient transmission of electric signals among neurons of vertebrates is ensured by myelin-insulating sheaths surrounding axons. Human cognition, sensation, and motor functions rely on the integrity of these layers, and demyelinating diseases o ...

WILEY2021

Quantitative T2 Mapping of Acute Pancreatitis

Tom Hilbert

Background: Quantification of the T2 signal by means of T2 mapping in acute pancreatitis (AP) has the potential to quantify the parenchymal edema. Quantitative T2 mapping may overcome the limitations of previously reported scoring systems for reliable asse ...

Wiley2024

Synthetic T-2-weighted images of the lumbar spine derived from an accelerated T-2 mapping sequence: Comparison to conventional T(2)w turbo spin echo

Tobias Kober, Tom Hilbert

Objectives: To evaluate the diagnostic usefulness of synthetic T2-weighted images of the lumbar spine derived from ten-fold undersampled k-space data using GRAPPATINI, a combination of a model-based approach for rapid T2 and M0 quantification (MARTINI) ext ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC2021

Assessment of idiopathic inflammatory myopathy using a deep learning method for muscle T2 mapping segmentation

Tobias Kober, Tom Hilbert, Qian Wang

Objective To investigate the utility of an automatic deep learning (DL) method for segmentation of T2 maps in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM) against healthy controls, and also the association of quantitative T2 values in patients with ...

SPRINGER2022

Patient respiratory-triggered quantitative T-2 mapping in the pancreas

Reto Meuli, Tobias Kober, Josefina Adriana Maria Bastiaansen, Tom Hilbert

Background Long acquisition times and motion sensitivity limit T-2 mapping in the abdomen. Accelerated mapping at 3 T may allow for quantitative assessment of diffuse pancreatic disease in patients during free-breathing. Purpose To test the feasibility of ...

2019

Accelerated T(2)Mapping of the Lumbar Intervertebral Disc Highly Undersampled K-Space Data for Robust T(2)Relaxation Time Measurement in Clinically Feasible Acquisition Times

Tobias Kober, Tom Hilbert

Objectives T(2)mapping of the intervertebral disc (IVD) can depict quantitative changes reflecting biochemical change due to loss of glycosaminoglycan content. Conventional T(2)mapping is usually performed using a 2-dimensional multi-echo-spin echo sequenc ...

2020

Development and Optimization of Methods for Accelerated Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Tom Hilbert

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has yielded great success as a medical imaging modality in the past decades, and its excellent soft tissue contrast is used in clinical routine to support diagnosis today. However, MRI is still facing challenges. For exampl ...

EPFL2018

Multiparametric Characterization and Spatial Distribution of Different MS Lesion Phenotypes

Tobias Kober, Tom Hilbert, Gian Franco Piredda

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: MS lesions exhibit varying degrees of axonal and myelin damage. A comprehensive description of lesion phenotypes could contribute to an improved radiologic evaluation of smoldering inflammation and remyelination processes. This stud ...

Amer Soc Neuroradiology2024