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@ARTICLE{Oswald:302886,
author = {L. Oswald$^*$ and J. Rauch$^*$ and F. B. Laun and M.
Ladd$^*$ and T. A. Kuder$^*$},
title = {{S}patially resolved diffusion pore imaging using k-space
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journal = {Magnetic resonance imaging},
volume = {122},
issn = {0730-725X},
address = {Amsterdam [u.a.]},
publisher = {Elsevier Science},
reportid = {DKFZ-2025-01426},
pages = {110455},
year = {2025},
note = {#EA:E020#LA:E020#},
abstract = {Nuclear magnetic resonance diffusion methods are powerful
tools for investigating the underlying structure of
materials or tissues. Diffusion pore imaging (DPI) provides
access to information about the geometric shape of pores
containing diffusible substances. This technique yields an
averaged image of the pores present in the imaging volume
and enables measurements at a scale much smaller than that
of conventional MR imaging. For applications in
non-homogeneous materials such as biological tissues or
heterogeneous porous media, the integration of a second
spatial encoding step is essential to distinguish pore
shapes in different regions of the measurement volume. Here,
we present a combination of two-dimensional q-space and
two-dimensional k-space acquisition on a Bruker 9.4 T small
animal scanner. A 2D pore space function is reconstructed in
each image voxel obtained from k-space. The long-narrow
sequence scheme necessary for DPI was extended with a
conventional k-space imaging readout to fill both k- and
q-space. A conventional spin-echo approach with a single
refocusing pulse was employed. From two different regions of
interest, the sizes of capillaries with inner diameters of
15 μm and 20 μm, respectively, present in a phantom could
be estimated from one- and two-dimensional projections of
the pore space function. Simulations using the multiple
correlation function approach exhibit good agreement with
the measured one-dimensional pore space functions. Existing
residual phases in the measurement data were corrected using
phase reference measurements in a structureless oil phantom.
In summary, spatially resolved pore imaging allows for the
reconstruction of pore shapes in specific regions of
interest, reinforcing the potential of DPI to non-invasively
explore cellular structure. This study demonstrates the
ability to reveal the voxel-averaged shape of pore
distributions within a single DPI measurement on a
preclinical MR scanner.},
keywords = {Diffusion pore imaging (Other) / Diffusion weighting
(Other) / Pore sizes (Other) / Sequence design (Other)},
cin = {E020},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-He78)E020-20160331},
pnm = {315 - Bildgebung und Radioonkologie (POF4-315)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-315},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:40633855},
doi = {10.1016/j.mri.2025.110455},
url = {https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/302886},
}