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@ARTICLE{Zimmermann:862505,
author = {Zimmermann, Markus and Oros-Peusquens, Ana-Maria and
Iordanishvili, Elene and Shin, Seonyeong and Yun, Seong Dae
and Abbas, Zaheer and Shah, N. J.},
title = {{M}ulti-exponential {R}elaxometry using l1-regularized
{I}terative {NNLS} ({MERLIN}) with {A}pplication to {M}yelin
{W}ater {F}raction {I}maging},
journal = {IEEE transactions on medical imaging},
volume = {38},
number = {11},
issn = {1558-254X},
address = {New York, NY},
publisher = {IEEE},
reportid = {FZJ-2019-02809},
pages = {2676 - 2686},
year = {2019},
abstract = {A new parameter estimation algorithm, MERLIN, is presented
for accurate and robust multi-exponential relaxometry using
magnetic resonance imaging, a tool that can provide valuable
insight into the tissue microstructure of the brain.
Multi-exponential relaxometry is used to analyze the myelin
water fraction and can help to detect related diseases.
However, the underlying problem is ill-conditioned, and as
such, is extremely sensitive to noise and measurement
imperfections, which can lead to less precise and more
biased parameter estimates. MERLIN is a fully automated,
multi-voxel approach that incorporates state-of-the-art
$\ell _{1}$ -regularization to enforce sparsity and spatial
consistency of the estimated distributions. The proposed
method is validated in simulations and in vivo experiments,
using a multi-echo gradient-echo (MEGE) sequence at 3 T.
MERLIN is compared to the conventional single-voxel $\ell
_{2}$ -regularized NNLS (rNNLS) and a multi-voxel extension
with spatial priors (rNNLS + SP), where it consistently
showed lower root mean squared errors of up to 70 percent
for all parameters of interest in these simulations.},
cin = {INM-4 / INM-11 / JARA-BRAIN},
ddc = {620},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-4-20090406 / I:(DE-Juel1)INM-11-20170113 /
$I:(DE-82)080010_20140620$},
pnm = {573 - Neuroimaging (POF3-573)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-573},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:30990178},
UT = {WOS:000494433300017},
doi = {10.1109/TMI.2019.2910386},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/862505},
}