QMRI Group Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications
Supported in part by the NIH MRI Study of Normal Pediatric Brain Development

2009

• Koay CG, Özarslan E and Pierpaoli C. Probabilistic Identification and Estimation of Noise (PIESNO): A self-consistent approach and its applications in MRI. J Magn Reson 2009; 199: 94-103. (Software URL: http://sites.google.com/site/hispeedpackets)

2008

• Wu, M., Chang, L.-C., Walker, L., Lemaitre, H., Barnett, A.S., Marenco, S., and Pierpaoli, C. (2008) Comparison of EPI Distortion Correction Methods in Diffusion Tensor MRI Using a Novel Framework. MICCAI 2008, Part II, LNCS 5242, pp. 321-329.
• Irfanoglu, M.O., Machiraju, R., Sammet, S., Pierpaoli, C., and Knopp, M.V. (2008) Automatic Deformable Diffusion Tensor Registration for Fiber Population Analysis. MICCAI 2008, Part II, LNCS 5242, pp. 1014-1022.
• Chang, L-C., Koay, C.G., Basser, P.J., and Pierpaoli, C. (2008) Linear Least-Squares Method for Unbiased Estimation of T1 From SPGR Signals. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 60:496-501.
• Koay, C.G., Nevo, U., Chang, L.C., Pierpaoli, C., and Basser, P.J. (2008) The elliptical cone of uncertainty and its normalized measures in diffusion tensor imaging. IEEE Trans Med Imag 27(6): 834-846.

2007

• Chang, L-C., Koay, C.G., Pierpaoli, C., and Basser, P.J. (2007) Variance of estimated DTI-derived parameters via first-order perturbation methods. Magn Reson Med. 57:141-149.
• Cheng Guan Koay, Lin-Ching Chang, Carlo Pierpaoli, Peter J. Basser. Error Propagation Framework for Diffusion Tensor Imaging via Diffusion Tensor Representations. IEEE Trans Med Imaging 26(8):1017-1034.
  The erratum can be found here: download erratum

2006

• Koay, C.G., Chang, L-C., Carew, J.D., Pierpaoli, C., and Basser, P.J. (2006) A unifying theoretical and algorithmic framework for least squares methods of estimation in diffusion tensor imaging. J Magn Reson. 182:115-125. (For software request, please write to the corresponding author at guankoac@mail.nih.gov).

2005

• Chang, L.C., Jones, D.K., and Pierpaoli, C. (2005) RESTORE: Robust estimation of tensors by outlier rejection. Magn Reson Med. 53:1088-1095.
• Rohde, G.K., Barnett, A.S., Basser, P.J., and Pierpaoli, C. (2005) Estimating intensity variance due to noise in registered images: Applications to diffusion tensor MRI. Neuroimage 26:673-684.

2004

• Rohde, G.K., Pajevic, S., amd Pierpaoli, C. (2004) Multi-channel registration of diffusion-tensor images using directional information. 2^nd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: Macro to Nano 712-715.
• Rohde, G.K., Barnett, A.S., Basser, P.J., Marenco, S., and Pierpaoli, C. (2004) Comprehensive approach for correction of motion and distortion in diffusion-weighted MRI. Magn Reson Med. 51:103-114.

Peer-reviewed Conference Presentations
Supported in part by the NIH MRI Study of Normal Pediatric Brain Development

2009

• Walker, L., Chang, L-C., Kanterakis, E., Bloy, L., Simonyan, K., Verma, R., and C. Pierpaoli. (2009) Statistical Assessment of the Effects of Physiological Noise and Artifacts in a Population Analysis of Diffusion Tensor MRI Data. In ISMRM 17^th Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Honolulu, Hawai'i. April 18-24, 2009. 458.
• J.E. Sarlls, and C. Pierpaoli. (2009) Micro-architectural Features of the In Vivo Human Optic Chiasm. In ISMRM 17^th Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Honolulu, Hawai'i. April 18-24, 2009. 1455.
• Carlo Pierpaoli. (2009) How to do a DTI multi-center neuroimaging study. In ISMRM 17^th Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Honolulu, Hawai'i. April 18-24, 2009.
• C. Koay, E. Özarslan, and C. Pierpaoli. (2009) Simultaneous identification of noise and estimation of noise standard deviation in MRI. In ISMRM 17^th Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Honolulu, Hawai'i. April 18-24, 2009. 4691.
• C. Pierpaoli, J. Sarlls, U. Nevo, P. J. Basser, and F. Horkay. (2009) Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) water solutions as isotropic phantoms for diffusion MRI studies. In ISMRM 17^th Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Honolulu, Hawai'i. April 18-24, 2009. 1414.
• L-C. Chang, L. Walker, and C. Pierpaoli. (2009) Making the Robust Tensor Estimation Approach: "RESTORE" more Robust. In ISMRM 17^th Annual Meeting and Exhibition, Honolulu, Hawai'i. April 18-24, 2009. 3558.

2008

• J. Sarlls and C. Pierpaoli. (2008) Sub-millimeter Voxel Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the Optic Chiasm. In 14^th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping.
• L. Walker, J. Yang, X. Wu, K. Simonyan, R. Verma, and C. Pierpaoli. (2008) Regional Distribution of Outliers Across a Population of Diffusion MRI in Human Brain. In 14^th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping.
• Chang, L-C., Koay, C., Basser, P.J., Pierpaoli, C. Accurate Estimation of T1 from SPGR Signals. In: ISMRM Proceedings, Toronto, 2008. #3048 PDF
• I.R. Leppert, C.R. Almli, R.C. McKinstry, R.V. Mulkern, C. Pierpaoli, M.J. Rivkin, and G.B. Pike. (2008) T2 Relaxometry of Normal Pediatric Brain Development. In Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 16. p. 2047. PDF
• Wu, M., Barnett, A.S., Marenco, S., Walker, L., Lemaitre, H., Pierpaoli, C. Comparison of EPI Distortion Correction Methods in Diffusion Tensor MRI. In: ISMRM Proceedings, Toronto, 2008. #1829 PDF
• Sarlls, J.E., Marenco, S., Pierpaoli, C. DTI of the Human Brain with Sub-millimeter Voxel Size: Clear Depiction of Fiber Decussation in the Optic Chiasm. In: ISMRM Proceedings, Toronto, 2008. #1817 PDF
• Sarlls, J.E. & Pierpaoli, C. High-resolution Diffusion Tensor Imaging at 3T with Radial-FSE. In: ISMRM Proceedings, Toronto, 2008. #758 PDF
• Walker, L., Yang, J., Wu, X., Simonyan, K., Verma, R., Pierpaoli, C. Regional Distribution of Outliers of Diffusion MRI in the Human Brain. In: ISMRM Proceedings, Toronto, 2008. #139 PDF

2007

• C. Koay, L-C. Chang, C. Pierpaoli, and P.J. Basser. (2007) Diffusion Tensor Representations and Their Applications to DTI Error Propagation. In Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 15. p 1587. PDF
• C. Koay, L-C. Chang, S. Deoni, and C. Pierpaoli. (2007) An Optimal Framework for T1 Estimation in An SPGR Acquisition. In Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 15. p. 1794. PDF
• Chang L-C., and Pierpaoli C. (2007) Improving the Accuracy of Diffusion MR Tractography Using RESTORE. In Proc. Annual Biomedical Engineering Meeting. Taiwan, Dec, 2007. p. 224-226.
• Chang L-C., Koay C.G., Deoni S., and Pierpaoli C. (2007) Comparison of Linear and Non-linear Fitting Methods for Estimating T1 from SPGR Signals. In Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 15, p. 3715. PDF
• Wu M., Chang L-C., Barnett A. S., Marenco S., and Pierpaoli C. (2007) A Framework for Evaluating the Performance of EPI Distortion Correction Strategies in Diffusion Tensor MRI. In Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 15, p. 1591. PDF
• Sarlls, J.E., Trouard, T.P. and Pierpaoli, C. (2007) Mixed-CPMG Radial-FSE for Diffusion Imaging at 3T. In Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB. Berlin, Germany. 1491. PDF

2006

• Chang L-C., Pierpaoli C., and Basser P.J. (2006) The Variance of DTI-derived Parameters via First-Order Perturbation Methods. In Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 14, p 1628.
• Koay, C.G., L. Chang, C. Pierpaoli, P. J. Basser. Error Propagation Framework for Diffusion Tensor Imaging. In 14^th ISMRM. Seattle, Washington. 1067.

2005

• Chang, L-C., Rohde, G.K., and Pierpaoli, C. (2005) An automatic method for estimating noise-induced signal variance in magnitude-reconstructed magnetic resonance images. In Proc. of SPIE 5747:1136-1142.
• Rohde, G.K., Barnett, A.S., Basser, P.J., and Pierpaoli, C. (2005) Estimating intensity variance due to noise in registered images. In Proc. of SPIE 5747:655-666.
• Chang L-C., Rohde G.K., Basser P.J., and Pierpaoli C. (2005) Automatically Estimating Noise-Induced Signal Variance in Magnitude Reconstructed MRI using Kernel Estimator. In Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 13, p. 2254. PDF
• Chang L-C., Rohde G.K., and Basser P.J. (2005) Analytic Expressions for the Uncertainty of DTI-derived Parameters and their Validation Using Monte Carlo Methods. In Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. Workshop on Methods for Quantitative Diffusion MRI of Human Brain, Alberta, Canada, March 13-16. 2005.

2004

• Rohde, G.K., S. Pajevic, and C. Pierpaoli. (2004) Multi-channel registration of diffusion tensor images using directional information. In IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging. IEEE, Arlington, VA, USA. 712-715.
• Chang L-C., Rohde G. K., Jones D.K., Basser P.J., and Pierpaoli C. (2004) RESTORE: Robust Estimation of Tensors by Outlier Rejection. In Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med 12. PDF
• Rohde, G.K., S. Pajevic, and C. Pierpaoli. (2004) Nonlinear registration of diffusion tensor images using directional information. In ISMRM, Kyoto, Japan. 1213. PDF

Publications
by the Brain Development Cooperative Group

2009

• Karama, S., Ad-Dab'bagh Y., Haier R.J., Deary I.J., Lyttelton O.C., Lepage C., Evans A.C., and the Brain Development Cooperative Group. Positive association between cognitive ability and cortical thickness in a representative US sample of healthy 6 to 18 year-olds. Intelligence 37(2):145-155.
• S. Karama, Y. Ad-Dab'bagh, R.J. Haier, I.J. Deary, O.C. Lyttelton, C. Lepage, A.C. Evans and the Brain Development Cooperative Group. Erratum to "Positive association between cognitive ability and cortical thickness in a representative US sample of healthy 6 to 18 year-olds." In Intelligence 2009 37:432-442.
• Leppert, I.R., Eng, M., Almli, C.R., McKinstry, R.C., Mulkern, R.V., Pierpaoli, C., Rivkin, M.J., Pike, G.B. & the Brain Development Cooperative Group (2009). T2 relaxometry of normal pediatric brain development. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 29(2):258-267.

2007

• Almli C.R., Rivkin M.J., McKinstry R.C. & Brain Development Cooperative Group (2007). The NIH MRI study of normal brain development (Objective-2): Newborns, infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. NeuroImage, 35(1), 308-325.
• Waber, C.P., deMoor, C., Forbes, P.W., Almli, C.R., Botteron, K.N, Leonard, G., Milovan, D., Paus, T., Rumsey, J., & the Brain Development Cooperative Group (2007). The NIH MRI Study of Normal Brain Development: performance of a population based sample of healthy children aged 6 to 18 years on a neuropsychological battery. J Int Neuropsychol Soc., 13(5):729-46.
• Liu, A.K., Marcus, K.J., Fischl, B., Grant, P.E., Poussaint, T.Y., Rivkin, M.J., Davis, P., Tarbell, N.J., and Yock, T.I. (2007) Changes in cerebral cortex of children treated for medulloblastoma. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, and Physics. Jul 15;68(4):992-8. Epub 2007 Mar 26. Abstract

2006

• Evans, A.C. & the Brain Development Cooperative Group (2006). The NIH MRI study of normal brain development. NeuroImage, 30(1), 184-202.