PhD meeting — Michael E. — 20150713

Meeting Minutes

July 13, 2015

1. Attendees:

• Tom Vercauteren

• David Atkinson

• Michael Ebner

2. Discussed Topics:

• Images of kidneys acquired today (3T, Philips, UCH 2^nd floor)

• Possibility of respiratory gating to image reference volume

• Possibility of using k-space for motion correction

• Orientation of PSF and simplification of regarding it “spatially uniform” at each slice

• Problem of non-uniform gradient and subsequent impact on slice-profile

• Measurement of slice profile to improve forward model of registration problem

• Intended validation of future reconstruction algorithm: Comparison of motion corrected data with acquired motion-free datasets of non-fetal organs underpins validity of fetal data reconstruction results.

3. Action Items:

• BTK/IRTK/SLIMMER

• Kidney images:

  • Analyse acquired datasets

  • Test reconstruction algorithms on them

• Own reconstruction algorithm:

  • Refinement

  • Future implementation of Kuklisova-Murgasova et al. (2012). Reconstruction of Fetal Brain MRI with Intensity Matching and Complete Outlier Removal.

• Further reading:

  • Reconstruction algorithms

  • Literature on (fetal) MRI (mostly SST2W)

  • Image processing