Numerical Simulation of Diffusion MRI Signals Using an Adaptive Time-Stepping Method
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-20-2014
Abstract
The effect on the MRI signal of water diffusion in biological tissues in the presence of applied magnetic field gradient pulses can be modelled by a multiple compartment Bloch–Torrey partial differential equation. We present a method for the numerical solution of this equation by coupling a standard Cartesian spatial discretization with an adaptive time discretization. The time discretization is done using the explicit Runge–Kutta–Chebyshev method, which is more efficient than the forward Euler time discretization for diffusive- type problems. We use this approach to simulate the diffusion MRI signal from the extra-cylindrical compartment in a tissue model of the brain gray matter consisting of cylindrical and spherical cells and illustrate the effect of cell membrane permeability.
Publication Information
Li, Jing-Rebecca; Calhoun, Donna; Poupon, Cyril; and Le Bihan, Denis. (2014). "Numerical Simulation of Diffusion MRI Signals Using an Adaptive Time-Stepping Method". Physics in Medicine and Biology, 59(2), 441-454. https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/59/2/441