Quantitative MRI processing
Project description
South Edinburgh Perfusion+ Analysis Library (SEPAL)
Please note: This library is also hosted in the OSIPI DCE-DSC-MRI_CodeCollection repository, where unit tests and perfusion code by other authors can also be found.
Python library for simulating and fitting DCE- and other quantitative MRI data. It permits arbitrary combinations of pulse sequence, pharmacokinetic model, water exchange model, etc. The code is a work-in-progress, has not been extensively tested and is not recommended or approved for clinical use.
Created 28 September 2020
@authors: Michael Thrippleton
@email: m.j.thrippleton@ed.ac.uk
@institution: University of Edinburgh, UK
Installation:
pip install sepal
Use:
Most functionality is demonstrated in Jupyter notebook format in ./demo
Functionality:
- Enhancement-to-concentration conversion (assuming fast water exchange)
- Fit tissue concentration using pharmacokinetic model
- Fit signal enhancement using pharmacokinetic model
- Pharmacokinetic models: steady-state, Patlak, extended Tofts, Tofts, 2CXM, 2CUM
- Patlak fitting with multiple linear regression
- AIFs: including patient-specific (measured), Parker, bi-exponential Parker
- Fitting free AIF time delay parameter
- Relaxivity models: linear
- Signal models: spoiled gradient echo, inversion-recovery spin-echo
- Water exchange models: FXL, NXL, NXL_be
- T1 fitting using variable flip angle method, IR-SPGR, DESPOT1-HIFI and inversion recovery
- T2(*) fitting for multi-TE acquisitions
- MTR and MTSat calculation
Not yet implemented/limitations:
- Additional pharmacokinetic models (add by inheriting from PkModel class)
- Additional relaxivity models (add by inheriting from CRModel class)
- Additional water exchange models, e.g. 3S2X, 2S1X (add by inheriting from WaterExModel class)
- Additional signal models (add by inheriting from SignalModel class)
- R2/R2* effects not included in fitting of enhancement curves (but is included for enhancement-to-concentration conversion)
- Compartment-specific relaxivity parameters/models
- Fitting water exchange parameters
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