EE 364B Project Final Report: SCP Solver for a Nonconvex Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping Formulation
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Changes in iron concentration in brain tissue are of interest in the study of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and multiple sclerosis [MPY13]. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is inherently sensitive to changes in tissue magnetic susceptibility, which can be used as a direct measure of iron concentration [Sch96]. Changes in tissue magnetic susceptibility result in phase shifts in the MR image. Calculating quantitative susceptibility maps (QSM) from the MR image gives researchers a noninvasive method for studying iron concentrations in the brain.
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