A priori knowledge based frequency-domain quantification of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
2009 (English)In: Proceedings of the 7th IFAC Symposium onModelling and Control in Biomedical Systems, Aalborg, Denmark, August 12-14, 2009, IFAC Secretariat , 2009, no PART 1, p. 210-215Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Because of the overlapping of the spectra of different metabolites and the interference of the baseline mainly from broad resonances of macromolecule and lipids, it is difficult to achieve the quantification of spectra of different metabolites which is important for both research and clinical applications of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS). In this paper, a novel MRS quantification method based on frequency a priori knowledge is proposed. Firstly, a wavelet filter is used to remove the broad components of an observed spectrum in which baseline and the relatively broad components of metabolite spectrum are included. Secondly, a linear nonnegative pursuit algorithm based on regularized FOCUSS (Focal Underdetermined System Solver) algorithm is used to decompose the filtered spectra in a dictionary which is based on a set of Lorentzian and Gaussian functions corresponding to spectrum models. Benefitting from the a priori knowledge of the peak frequency of each metabolite, the filtered metabolite spectrum can be sparsely represented with these basis functions and the spectra of different metabolites are relevant to certain basis functions. Therefore, with the corresponding relation between the basis functions and spectrum models and the estimated decomposition coefficients, a mixed spectrum without baseline can be reconstructed and spectra of different metabolites can be quantified at the same time. The accuracy and the robustness of MRS quantification are improved by the proposed method, from simulation data, compared with commonly used MRS quantification methods. Quantification on in vivo brain spectra is also demonstrated.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IFAC Secretariat , 2009. no PART 1, p. 210-215
Series
IFAC Proceedings Volumes, ISSN 1474-6670
Keywords [en]
FOCUSS algorithm, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS), Quantification, Sparse representation, Wavelet filter, Biological systems, Biomolecules, Clinical research, Frequency domain analysis, Functions, Inverse synthetic aperture radar, Knowledge based systems, Magnetic resonance, Magnetic resonance spectroscopy, Magnetism, FOCUSS algorithms, Magnetic resonance spectroscopies (MRS), Wavelet filters, Metabolites
National Category
Signal Processing
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-60440DOI: 10.3182/20090812-3-DK-2006.0025Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-80051597593ISBN: 9783902661494 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-60440DiVA, id: diva2:1759259
Conference
7th IFAC Symposium on Modelling and Control in Biomedical Systems, Aalborg, Denmark, August 12-14, 2009
2023-05-252023-05-252023-05-25Bibliographically approved