Journal
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE
Volume 55, Issue 1, Pages 136-146Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.20741
Keywords
DT-MRI; tractography; tensor; invariant; anisotropy
Funding
- NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE [T32CA009695] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND BIOENGINEERING [T32EB002177] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NCI NIH HHS [T32-CA09695] Funding Source: Medline
- NIBIB NIH HHS [T32-EB002177] Funding Source: Medline
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This paper outlines the mathematical development and application of two analytically orthogonal tensor invariants sets. Diffusion tensors can be mathematically decomposed into shape and orientation information, determined by the eigenvalues and eigenvectors, respectively. The developments herein orthogonally decompose the tensor shape using a set of three orthogonal invariants that characterize the magnitude of isotropy, the magnitude of anisotropy, and the mode of anisotropy. The mode of anisotropy is useful for resolving whether a region of anisotropy is linear anisotropic, orthotropic, or planar anisotropic. Both tensor trace and fractional anisotropy are members of an orthogonal invariant set, but they do not belong to the same set. It is proven that tensor trace and fractional anisotropy are not mutually orthogonal measures of the diffusive process. The results are applied to the analysis and visualization of diffusion tensor magnetic resonance images of the brain in a healthy volunteer. The theoretical developments provide a method for generating scalar maps of the diffusion tensor data, including novel fractional anisotropy maps that are color encoded for the mode of anisotropy and directionally encoded colormaps of only linearly anisotropic structures, rather than of high fractional anisotropy structures.
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