Abstract
PurposeWe introduce FSL‐MRS, an end‐to‐end, modular, open‐source MRS analysis toolbox. It provides spectroscopic data conversion, preprocessing, spectral simulation, fitting, quantitation, and visualization.MethodsThe FSL‐MRS package is modular. Its programs operate on data in a standard format (Neuroimaging Informatics Technology Initiative [NIfTI]) capable of storing single‐voxel and multivoxel spectroscopy, including spatial orientation information. The FSL‐MRS toolbox includes tools for preprocessing of raw spectroscopy data, including coil combination, frequency and phase alignment, and filtering. A density matrix simulation program is supplied for generation of basis spectra from simple text‐based descriptions of pulse sequences. Fitting is based on linear combination of basis spectra and implements Markov chain Monte Carlo optimization for the estimation of the full posterior distribution of metabolite concentrations. Validation of the fitting is carried out on independently created simulated data, phantom data, and three in vivo human data sets (257 single‐voxel spectroscopy and 8 MRSI data sets) at 3 T and 7 T. Interactive HTML reports are automatically generated by processing and fitting stages of the toolbox. The FSL‐MRS package can be used on the command line or interactively in the Python language.ResultsValidation of the fitting shows low error in simulation (median error of 11.9%) and in phantom (3.4%). Average correlation between a third‐party toolbox (LCModel) and FSL‐MRS was high (0.53‐0.81) in all three in vivo data sets.ConclusionThe FSL‐MRS toolbox is designed to be flexible and extensible to new forms of spectroscopic acquisitions. Custom fitting models can be specified within the framework for dynamic or multivoxel spectroscopy. It is available as part of the FMRIB Software Library.
Highlights
Funding informationPurpose: We introduce FSL-MRS, an end-to-end, modular, open-source MRS analysis toolbox
Recent years have seen the emergence and rapid progress of new MRS technologies, including spectral editing,[1]MRS imaging,[2,3] time-resolved functional MRS,[4] diffusionweighted MRS,[5] and MRS fingerprinting.[6]
The FSL-MRS fitting module works on the principle of linear combination of precalculated basis spectra.[13]
Summary
Purpose: We introduce FSL-MRS, an end-to-end, modular, open-source MRS analysis toolbox. It provides spectroscopic data conversion, preprocessing, spectral simulation, fitting, quantitation, and visualization. The FSL-MRS toolbox includes tools for preprocessing of raw spectroscopy data, including coil combination, frequency and phase alignment, and filtering. Validation of the fitting is carried out on independently created simulated data, phantom data, and three in vivo human data sets (257 single-voxel spectroscopy and 8 MRSI data sets) at 3 T and 7 T. Custom fitting models can be specified within the framework for dynamic or multivoxel spectroscopy. It is available as part of the FMRIB Software Library
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