Lipid-suppressed and tissue-fraction corrected metabolic distributions in human central brain structures using 2D 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging at 7 T
Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACT Magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) has the potential to add a layer of understanding of the neurobiological mechanisms underlying brain diseases, disease progression, and treatment efficacy. Limitations related to metabolite fitting of low SNR data, signal variations due to partial volume effects, acquisition and extra-cranial lipid artefacts, along with clinically relevant aspects such as scan-time constraints, are among the factors that hinder the widespread implementation of in vivo MRSI. The aim of this work was to address these factors and to develop an acquisition, reconstruction and post-processing pipeline to derive lipid suppressed metabolite values based on Free Induction Decay (FID-MRSI) measurements made using a 7 tesla MR scanner. Anatomical images were used to perform high-resolution (1mm 3 ) partial-volume correction to account for grey matter, white matter and cerebral-spinal fluid signal contributions. Implementation of automatic quality control thresholds and normalization of metabolic maps from 23 subjects to the MNI standard atlas facilitated the creation of high-resolution average metabolite maps of several clinically relevant metabolites in central brain regions, while accounting for macromolecular distributions. Reported metabolite values include glutamate, choline, (phospo)creatine, myo-inositol, glutathione, N-acetyl aspartyl glutamate(and glutamine) and N-acetyl aspartate. MNI-registered average metabolite maps facilitate group-based analysis; thus offering the possibility to mitigate uncertainty in variable MRSI.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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