期刊
NEUROIMAGE
卷 237, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118197
关键词
Resting state fMRI; fMRI quality assurance; MRI scanner instabilities; Multi-center; Longitudinal fMRI studies
资金
- Ontario Brain Institute
- Ontario government
- Baycrest Foundation
- Bruyere Research Institute
- center for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation
- London Health Sciences Foundation
- McMaster University Faculty of Health Sciences
- Ottawa Brain and Mind Research Institute
- Queen's University Faculty of Health Sciences
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Foundation
- Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences center
- University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine
- Windsor/Essex County ALS Association
- Temerty Family Foundation
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) [MOP201403]
Quality assurance (QA) is crucial in longitudinal and/or multi-site studies to monitor scanner performance over time and location, detecting and controlling for intrinsic differences and changes in scanner performance. Using phantom scans and QA parameters, variations in image resolution measured by the FWHM were identified as a primary source of variance over time for many sites, as well as between sites and between manufacturers. An unexpected range of instabilities affecting individual slices in a number of scanners were also found, with a preprocessing approach to reduce variance and alleviate anomalies identified.
Quality assurance (QA) is crucial in longitudinal and/or multi-site studies, which involve the collection of data from a group of subjects over time and/or at different locations. It is important to regularly monitor the performance of the scanners over time and at different locations to detect and control for intrinsic differences (e.g., due to manufacturers) and changes in scanner performance (e.g., due to gradual component aging, software and/or hardware upgrades, etc.). As part of the Ontario Neurodegenerative Disease Research Initiative (ONDRI) and the Canadian Biomarker Integration Network in Depression (CAN-BIND), QA phantom scans were conducted approximately monthly for three to four years at 13 sites across Canada with 3T research MRI scanners. QA parameters were calculated for each scan using the functional Biomarker Imaging Research Network's (fBIRN) QA phantom and pipeline to capture between-and within-scanner variability. We also describe a QA protocol to measure the full-width-at-half-maximum (FWHM) of slice-wise point spread functions (PSF), used in conjunction with the fBIRN QA parameters. Variations in image resolution measured by the FWHM are a primary source of variance over time for many sites, as well as between sites and between manufacturers. We also identify an unexpected range of instabilities affecting individual slices in a number of scanners, which may amount to a substantial contribution of unexplained signal variance to their data. Finally, we identify a preliminary preprocessing approach to reduce this variance and/or alleviate the slice anomalies, and in a small human data set show that this change in preprocessing can have a significant impact on seed-based connectivity measurements for some individual subjects. We expect that other fMRI centres will find this approach to identifying and controlling scanner instabilities useful in similar studies.
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