Tzu-Cheng Chao1,
2, Jr-Yuan Chiou3, Cheng-Wen Ko4, Ming-Ting Wu5,
Stephan E. Maier3, Bruno Madore3
1Department
of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng-Kung
University, Tainan, Taiwan; 2Institute of Medical Informatics,
National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; 3Department of
Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA,
United States; 4Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; 5Department of
Radiology, Kaohsiung Veteran General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
An accelerated sampling strategy is proposed that can effectively reduce both geometric distortion and scan time in the context of the high Angularly Resolved Diffusion Imaging(HARDI) diffusion-weighted imaging method. The approach combines sampling strategies inspired from accelerated dynamic imaging and from the rossing Fiber Angular Resolution of Intra-Voxel structure (CFRI) algorithm to resolve crossing fibers in a manner that is fast and fairly insensitive to susceptibility-induced field variations and geometric distortion.