P. Narendran; V.K. Narendira Kumar; K. Somasundaram

International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science (IJITCS)

IJITCS Vol. 4, No. 10, 8 Sep. 2012

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MRI of the Brain in Moving Subjects Application to Fetal, Neonatal and Adult Brain

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Author(s)

P. Narendran ^1,* V.K. Narendira Kumar ² K. Somasundaram ³

1. PG & Research Department of Computer Science, Gobi Arts & Science College (Autonomous), Gobichettipalayam – 638 453, Erode District, Tamil Nadu, India

2. Department of Information Technology, Gobi Arts & Science College (Autonomous), Gobichettipalayam – 638 453, Erode District, Tamil Nadu, India

3. Dept. of Computer Science & Applications, Gandhigram rural university, Gandhigram – 624 302, Tamil Nadu, India

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2012.10.05

Received: 11 Jan. 2012 / Revised: 19 Apr. 2012 / Accepted: 24 Jun. 2012 / Published: 8 Sep. 2012

Index Terms

Brain, MRI, Registration, Fetal, Neonatal, Adult

Abstract

Imaging in the presence of subject motion has been an ongoing challenge for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In this paper some of the important issues regarding the acquisition and reconstruction of anatomical and DTI imaging of moving subjects are addressed; methods to achieve high resolution and high Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) volume data. Excellent fetal brain 3D Apparent Diffusion Coefficient maps in high resolution have been achieved for the first time as well as promising Fractional Anisotropy maps. Growth curves for the normally developing fetal brain have been devised by the quantification of cerebral and cerebellar volumes as well as someone dimensional measurements. A Verhulst model is to describe these growth curves, and this approach has achieved a correlation over 0.99 between the fitted model and actual data.

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P. Narendran, V. K. Narendira Kumar, K. Somasundaram, "MRI of the Brain in Moving Subjects Application to Fetal, Neonatal and Adult Brain", International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science(IJITCS), vol.4, no.10, pp.44-50, 2012. DOI:10.5815/ijitcs.2012.10.05

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