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Whole Brain Myelin Imaging with mcDESPOT in Multiple Sclerosis
July 18, 2012Jason Su
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Outline
1. Introduction to parametric mapping2. Myelin imaging and MWF3. mcDESPOT measurement of 2-pool exchange4. mcDESPOT in multiple sclerosis5. Current and future challenges
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What is Parametric Mapping?
1. Start with a signal model for your data2. Collect a series of scans, typically with only 1
or 2 sequence variables changing3. Fit model to data
• Motivation– Reveals quantifiable physical properties of tissue
unlike conventional imaging– Maps are ideally scanner independent
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Parametric Mapping
• Some examples– FA/MD mapping with DTI – most widely known
mapping sequence– T1 mapping – relevant in study of contrast agent
relaxivity and diseases– B1 mapping – important for high field applications
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T1 Mapping MotivationT1 mapping in multiple sclerosis
grade IV
grade II
grade III
DCE-MRI in tumors:[Gd] related to T1
Levesque et al. 2010 Tofts et al. 1999, 2003, Patankar et al. 2005
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Relaxation Mapping
• T1 mapping– IR SE – gold standard, vary TI– Look-Locker – use multiple readout pulses to collect
many TIs– DESPOT1 – vary flip angle
• T2 mapping– Dual SE – vary TE– CPMG – use multiple spin echoes to collect many TEs– DESPOT2 – vary flip angle
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T1 Mapping: Inversion Recovery
Gowland &Stevenson, in Tofts ed., QMRI of the Brain, 2003Brix et al. MRI 1990; Ropele et al. MRM 1999; Wang et al. MRM 1987
1e10TTIMS
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DESPOT1 T1 mapping
Christensen 1974, Homer 1984, Wang 1987, Deoni 2003
S M0 sin e TE T2* 1 e TR T1
1 cos e TR T1
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DESPOT Methods
• Vary flip angle in steady state sequences like SPGR and SSFP• Fast, whole brain, higher resolution 1-2mm isotropic• Requires accurate knowledge of flip angle
1. B1+ transmit field inhomogeneity – problem for >1.5T2. Excitation slab profile – typically known and accounted for
• DESPOT1 – T1 mapping– DESPOT-HIFI – add an inversion to allow T1 and B1+ mapping
• DESPOT2 – T1 and T2 mapping– DESPOT-FM – collect multiple SSFP phase cycles to map B0
• mcDESPOT – multi-component T1 and T2 mapping
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Relaxation Based Myelin Imaging
• DTI is not an ideal measure of myelin (low resolution, crossing fibers problem)
• T2 (or R2) has been used in the past as a crude correlate of myelin– Myelination reduces water
content in brain, lower T2 – T2w FLAIR is used in MS to
highlight lesions– T2 mapping gives a more
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Myelin Water FractionRecent methods have focused on a more specific measure: myelin water fraction (MWF)• Multiecho qT2 – vary TE, decomposes the
signal into a spectrum of T2 times (UBC, MacKay)
– Well validated way to produce MWF maps that represent myelin
– Few slices, long acquisition time
• mcDESPOT – vary flip angle, models SPGR and SSFP steady state signal– Also based on modeling relaxation and two
pool exchange– Validation in progress– High resolution, whole brain, but long
processing time (24 hours)
• Intra- and extra-cellular water, T2 ≈ 80ms
• Myelin water, T2 ≈ 20ms
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FA vs MWF
Fractional Anisotropy map (3T), MWF (qT2, 3T) MWF (1.5T, mcDESPOT)
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mcDESPOT
• Models tissue as two water pools in exchange– Fast relaxing water pool– Slow relaxing water pool
• Assume chemical equilibrium:
• The SPGR and SSFP signal equations must be adapted to take into account this model
T1,F T2,F
fF
kFS
T1,S T2,S
fS
kSF
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mcDESPOT Model: SPGR
• SPGR equation– Single Component
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mcDESPOT Model: SPGR
• SPGR Equation– Multi-Component
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mcDESPOT Model: SPGR
• Single component fit of multi-component data
Deoni et al. 2008
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mcDESPOT Model Fitting
• Expensive non-linear curve fitting problem– 24 hour per 2mm isotropic brain with 12-core CPU
• Previous implementations used genetic algorithms
• Currently using stochastic region of contraction
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mcDESPOT Maps in NormalT1single T1fast
MWF
T2single T2slow
T1slow
T2fast Residence Time
0 – 0.234
0 – 137ms
0 – 555ms
0 – 9.26ms
0 – 1172ms
0 – 123ms
0 – 2345ms
0 – 328ms
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Declaration of Conflict of Interest or Relationship
I have no conflicts of interest to disclose with regard to the subject matter of this presentation.
MCDESPOT-DERIVED MWF IMPROVES EDSS PREDICTION IN MS PATIENTS COMPARED TO ATROPHY MEASURES ALONEJ.Su1, H.H.Kitzler2, M.Zeineh1, S.C.Deoni3, C.Harper-Little2, A.Leung2, M.Kremenchutzky2, and B.K.Rutt1
1Stanford U, CA, USA, 2TU Dresden, SN, Germany, 2U of Western Ontario, ON, Canada, 3Brown U, RI, USA
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Background
• Conventional MRI measures such as lesion load have been criticized with adding little new information on top of clinical scores for multiple sclerosis (MS) patients
• Measures that quantify the hidden burden of disease in white matter are urgently needed
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Purpose
• To apply mcDESPOT, a whole-brain, myelin-selective, multi-component relaxometric imaging method, in a pilot MS study
• Assess if the method can explain differences in disease course and severity by uncovering the burden of disease in normal-appearing white matter (NAWM)
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Study
Demographic Data Healthy Controls
All Patients CIS RRMS SPMS PPMS
N 26 26 10 5 6 5
Mean age, yr(SD)
42
(13)
49
(12)
41
(12)
48
(12)
58
(7)
55
(7)
Male/Female ratio 10/16 7/19 3/7 0/5 0/6 4/1
Mean disease duration, yr(SD)
—14
(13)
2
(2)
15
(10)
28
(8)
20
(12)
Mean EDSS score(SD) —
3.6
(2.4)
1.7
(0.9)
2.0
(1.7)
6.4
(1.1)
5.6
(1.1)
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Scanning Methods
• 1.5T GE Signa HDx, 8-channel head RF coil
• mcDESPOT: 2mm3 isotropic covering whole brain, about 15 min.– SPGR: TE/TR = 2.1/6.7ms, α = {3,4,5,6,7,8,11,13,18}°– bSSFP: TE/TR = 1.8/3.6ms, α = {11,14,20,24,28,34,41,51,67}°
• 2D T2 FLAIR: 0.86 mm2 in-plane and 3mm slice resolution
• 3D T1 IR-SPGR: 1mm3 resolution with pre/post Gd contrast
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Processing Methods: MWF
• Linearly coregister and brain extract mcDESPOT SPGR and SSFP images with FSL1
• Find myelin water fraction maps using the established mcDESPOT fitting algorithm2
Myelin Water Fraction
1FMRIB Software Library. 2Deoni et al., Magn Reson Med. 2008 Dec;60(6):1372-87
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Processing Methods: Deficient MWF
• Non-linearly register mcDESPOT MWF maps to MNI152 standard space
• Combine normals together to form mean and standard deviation MWF volumes
• For each subject, calculate a z-score ([x – μ]/σ) at every voxel to determine if it is significantly deficient, i.e. MWF < -4σ below the mean
Deficient MWF Voxels
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Processing Methods: WM
• Brain extract MPRAGE images
• Segment white and gray matter with SPM83
• Filter tissue masks to reduce noise then manually edit by a trained neuroradiologist
• Calculate parenchymal volume fraction (PVF) as WM+GM divided by the brain mask volume
FLAIR WM
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3Statistical Parametric Mapping software package.
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Processing Methods: Lesions & DAWM
• Non-linearly register T2-FLAIR images to MNI152 standard space
• Combine normals together to form mean and standard deviation volumes
• Segment lesions as those voxels with z-score > +4 and diffusely abnormal white matter > +2
• Edit masks by a trained neurologist
DAWM Lesions
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Processing Methods: NAWM & DVF
• Segment normal-appearing white matter (NAWM) as WM – DAWM – lesions
• Find deficient MWF volume fraction (DVF)– Sum the volume of deficient
voxels in each tissue compartment and normalize by the compartment’s volume
– # deficient voxels in compartment * voxel volume / compartment volume
Normal-AppearingWhite Matter
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Segmentations and DVFLAIR NAWM DAWM Lesions
MWF Deficient MWFVoxels
WM
DV in NAWM DV in DAWM DV in Lesions
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Statistical Methods
• Use rank sum tests to compare patient groups to normals along different measures
• Perform an exhaustive search to find the best multiple linear regression model for EDSS using Mallows’ Cp4 criterion among 21 possible image-derived predictors:– PVF– log-DVF in whole brain, log-DVF in WM, log-DVF in NAWM, log-DVF in lesions– log-DV in those four compartments– mean MWF in those four compartments– volumes of those four compartments (lesion volume = T2 lesion load)– volume fractions of those four compartments with respect to the whole brain
mask volume
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4Mallows C. Some comments on Cp. Technometrics. 1973;15(4):661-75.
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Results: Mean MWF in Compartments
• Dotted line shows mean MWF in WM for normals. Rank sum testing was done for each bar against this
• Testing was also done for RRMS vs. SPMS and CIS vs. RRMS, any significant differences are shown with a connecting bracket
• Significance levels:* p < 0.05** p < 0.01*** p < 0.001.
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Results: DVF in Compartments
• Dotted line shows deficient MWF volume fraction in WM for healthy controls
• With DVF, all patient subclasses were significantly different from healthy controls
• PVF, however, fails to distinguish CIS and RR patients from normals
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Results: Correlations with EDSS
• Lesion load correlates poorly with EDSS
• PVF and DVF are stronger indicators of decline
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Results: Multiple Linear Regression
• The best linear model for EDSS contains PVF (p < 0.001), mean MWF in whole brain (p < 0.001), and WM volume fraction (p < 0.01)
• Whole-brain MWF and WM volume fraction significantly improve the prediction of EDSS over that produced by PVF alone
• Explains 76% of the variance in EDSS (R2 = 0.76, adjusted R2 = 0.73) compared to 56% with only PVF
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Discussion & Conclusions
• DVF is able to differentiate CIS and RRMS patients from normals, whereas other measures such as PVF and mean MWF cannot
• The invisible burden of disease may be more important than lesions in determining disability, since we observe a higher correlation of EDSS with DVF in NAWM than lesion load
• A combination of established atrophy measures with new mcDESPOT-derived MWF are more capable in accurately estimating disability than either quantity alone
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Declaration of Conflict of Interest or Relationship
I have no conflicts of interest to disclose with regard to the subject matter of this presentation.
SENSITIVE DETECTION OF MYELINATION CHANGE IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS BY MCDESPOT
J.Su1, H.H.Kitzler2, M.Zeineh1, S.C.Deoni3, C.Harper-Little2, A.Leung2, M.Kremenchutzky2, and B.K.Rutt1
1Stanford U, CA, USA, 2TU Dresden, SN, Germany, 2U of Western Ontario, ON, Canada, 3Brown U, RI, USA
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Results: Mean MWF in Whole Brain
• Dotted line shows mean MWF for normals. Rank sum testing was done for each bar against this value
• Testing was also done for RRMS vs. SPMS and CIS vs. RRMS, any significant differences are shown with a connecting bracket
• Significance levels:– * p < 0.05– ** p < 0.01– *** p < 0.001.
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Results: DVF Change
• Colors denote subject type
• Arrowheads indicate the direction of change and the DVF at 1-year
• Dashed lines show subjects who also had a change in EDSS
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Normals
CIS
RRMS
SPMS
PPMS
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Results: DVF in Whole Brain
• Dotted line shows mean deficient MWF volume fraction change for normals
• Definite MS patients are losing significantly more myelin than normals
• Progressive patients have a greater rate of DVF increase
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Discussion & Conclusions
• DVF shows statistically significant changes in brain myelination over the study period
• Progressive patients show greater disease decline that are not reflected in their EDSS disability score
• EDSS and DVF appear to measure different aspects of the disease.– Patients with changes in EDSS did not actually have the
largest DVF changes
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Current and Future Work
• High-Field mcDESPOT– 3T: 6 min acq. @ 2mm isotropic, post-correction with a B1+ map is
sufficient– 7T: k-T points pulse design is showing promise in flattening the
transmitted field• Accelerated mcDESPOT
– DISCO-based view-sharing working with DESPOT1• SSFP (DESPOT2) more challenging
• Possible new applications– Alzheimer’s Disease: the myelin hypothesis– Traumatic brain injury– Novel segmentation