Description

Example source code to perform Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) to measure trabecular bone density from the article

Diefenbach, M. N., Meineke, J., Ruschke, S., Baum, T., Gersing, A., & Karampinos, D. C., On the sensitivity of quantitative susceptibility mapping for measuring trabecular bone density, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, (), (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mrm.27531

@article{diefenbach18_sensit_quant_suscep_mappin_measur,
  author =       {Maximilian N. Diefenbach and Jakob Meineke and
                  Stefan Ruschke and Thomas Baum and Alexandra Gersing
                  and Dimitrios C. Karampinos},
  title =        {On the Sensitivity of Quantitative Susceptibility
                  Mapping for Measuring Trabecular Bone Density},
  journal =      {Magnetic Resonance in Medicine},
  year =         2018,
  doi =          {10.1002/mrm.27531},
  url =          {https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.27531},
}

Repository Overview

• scripts/: batch processing functionality
  • demo.m: runs QSM method from the paper on example dataset
  • WFI_subject.m: function to run field mapping step on a single subject dataset
  • BFR_subject.m: function to run background field removal step on a single subject dataset
  • QSM_subject.m: function to run dipole inversion step on a single subject dataset
  • …
• code/: core algorithms
  • 3rd: third party libraries
  • …
• data/: includes data of one examplary subject
  • 20180406_502_CT.nrrd: CT image
  • 20180406_144018_0302_bFFEhires.nii.gz: high res bSSFP image
  • 20180406_144018_0302_ImDataParams.mat: TIMGRE data
• figures/: LaTeX/TikZ code to reproduce figures from the paper

Example Result

Output from the script demo.m:

License

MIT License

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