Publications by Gunnar Krüger

Fast model-based T-2 mapping using SAR-reduced simultaneous multislice excitation

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Gunnar Krüger, Tobias Kober, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Tom Hilbert

Purpose To obtain whole-brain high-resolution T-2 maps in 2 minutes by combining simultaneous multislice excitation and low-power PINS (power independent of number of slices) refocusing pulses with undersampling and a model-based reconstruction. Methods A ...

WILEY2019

Surface-based characteristics of the cerebellar cortex visualized with ultra-high field MRI

Guillaume Bonnier, Wietske Van der Zwaag, Gunnar Krüger, Yohan Boillat, Cristina Granziera, Kieran O'Brien, Mario Joao Fartaria de Oliveira

Although having a relatively homogeneous cytoarchitectonic organization, the cerebellar cortex is a heterogeneous region characterized by different amounts of myelin, iron and protein expression profiles. In this study, we used quantitative T1 and T2* mapp ...

2018

An Ultra-High Field Study of Cerebellar Pathology in Early Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis Using MP2RAGE

Meritxell Bach Cuadra, Guillaume Bonnier, Gunnar Krüger, Tobias Kober, Cristina Granziera, Alexis Roche, Kieran O'Brien, Pavel Falkovskiy, Mario Joao Fartaria de Oliveira

Objectives: The aim of this study was to study focal cerebellar pathology in early stages of multiple sclerosis (MS) using ultra-high-field magnetization-prepared 2 inversion-contrast rapid gradient-echo (7T MP2RAGE). Materials and Methods: Twenty early-st ...

Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins2017

Prospective head motion correction using FID-guided on-demand image navigators

Reto Meuli, Rolf Gruetter, Bénédicte Marie Maréchal, Guillaume Bonnier, Gunnar Krüger, Tobias Kober, Tom Hilbert, Maryna Volodimirivna Waszak, Pavel Falkovskiy

PURPOSE: We suggest a motion correction concept that employs free-induction-decay (FID) navigator signals to continuously monitor motion and to guide the acquisition of image navigators for prospective motion correction following motion detection. METHODS: ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Accuracy and Precision of Head Motion Information in Multi-Channel Free Induction Decay Navigators for Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Gunnar Krüger, Tobias Kober, Maryna Volodimirivna Waszak, Michael Herbst

Free induction decay (FID) navigators were found to qualitatively detect rigid-body head movements, yet it is unknown to what extent they can provide quantitative motion estimates. Here, we acquired FID navigators at different sampling rates and simultaneo ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2015

An evaluation of volume-based morphometry for prediction of mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

Meritxell Bach Cuadra, Reto Meuli, Bénédicte Marie Maréchal, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Daniel Andreas Schmitter, Gunnar Krüger, Ahmed Abdulkadir, Cristina Granziera, Alessandro Daducci, Alexis Roche

Voxel-based morphometry from conventional T1-weighted images has proved effective to quantify Alzheimer’s disease (AD) related brain atrophy and to enable fairly accurate automated classification of AD patients, mild cognitive impaired patients (MCI) and e ...

Elsevier2015

Multicontrast connectometry: A new tool to assess cerebellum alterations in early relapsing‐remitting multiple sclerosis

Jonas Richiardi, Gloria Menegaz, Jean-Philippe Thiran, Djalel Eddine Meskaldji, Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Guillaume Bonnier, David Paul Roger Romascano, Gunnar Krüger, Cristina Granziera, Alessandro Daducci, Alexis Roche, Ying-Chia Lin

Background: Cerebellar pathology occurs in late multiple sclerosis (MS) but little is known about cerebellar changes during early disease stages. In this study, we propose a new multicontrast “connectometry” approach to assess the structural and functional ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Quantitative Analysis of Myelin and Axonal Remodeling in the Uninjured Motor Network After Stroke

Gloria Menegaz, Jean-Philippe Thiran, Djalel Eddine Meskaldji, Reto Meuli, Gunnar Krüger, Cristina Granziera, Alessandro Daducci

Objectives: Contralesional brain connectivity plasticity was previously reported after stroke. This study aims at disentangling the biological mechanisms underlying connectivity plasticity in the uninjured motor network after an ischemic lesion. In particu ...

2015

Multicontrast MRI Quantification of Focal Inflammation and Degeneration in Multiple Sclerosis

Gloria Menegaz, Jean-Philippe Thiran, Djalel Eddine Meskaldji, Guillaume Bonnier, David Paul Roger Romascano, Gunnar Krüger, Cristina Granziera, Alexis Roche, Ying-Chia Lin

Introduction. Local microstructural pathology in multiple sclerosis patients might influence their clinical performance. This study applied multicontrast MRI to quantify inflammation and neurodegeneration in MS lesions. We explored the impact of MRI-based ...

Hindawi Publishing Corporation2015

Prospective motion correction with FID-triggered image navigators

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Reto Meuli, Rolf Gruetter, Guillaume Bonnier, Gunnar Krüger, Tobias Kober, Tom Hilbert, Maryna Volodimirivna Waszak, Pavel Falkovskiy

2015

Dielectric pads and low- B1+ adiabatic pulses: Complementary techniques to optimize structural T1w whole-brain MP2RAGE scans at 7 tesla

François Lazeyras, Gunnar Krüger, Tobias Kober, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Kieran O'Brien

Purpose To evaluate the combination of low-B1+ adiabatic pulses and high permittivity (εr ≈ 165) dielectric pads effectiveness to reproducibly improve the inversion efficiency for whole-brain MP2RAGE scans, at ultra-high field. Materials and Methods Two lo ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Multicontrats MRI Improved the Clinico-Radiological Correlation in Early Multiple Sclerosis Patients with Minor Deficits

Gloria Menegaz, Jean-Philippe Thiran, Djalel Eddine Meskaldji, Guillaume Bonnier, David Paul Roger Romascano, Gunnar Krüger, Cristina Granziera, Alexis Roche, Ying-Chia Lin

Conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of patients with multiple sclerosis provides only limited insights into the nature of brain tissue damage with modest clinical-radiological correlations. In this study, quantitative and semi-quantitative MRI te ...

2014

FID-guided retrospective motion correction based on autofocusing

Rolf Gruetter, Gunnar Krüger, Tobias Kober, Cristina Granziera, Maryna Volodimirivna Waszak

This work investigates the possibility of using FID navigator signals to improve the performance of a recently proposed autofocusing-based retrospective motion correction technique. FID navigators were incorporated into an MP-RAGE sequence and 3 subjects w ...

2014

Cerebellar Connectomics Provide New Biomarkers in Early Multiple Sclerosis

Jonas Richiardi, Gloria Menegaz, Jean-Philippe Thiran, Djalel Eddine Meskaldji, Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Guillaume Bonnier, David Paul Roger Romascano, Gunnar Krüger, Cristina Granziera, Alessandro Daducci, Alexis Roche, Ying-Chia Lin

The cerebellum is involved in multiple sclerosis (MS), but its implication in early phases is still poorly understood. We investigated structural and functional cerebellar connectivity alterations in early and minimally impaired MS patients, and their corr ...

2014

Robust T1-Weighted Structural Brain Imaging and Morphometry at 7T Using MP2RAGE

Patric Hagmann, François Lazeyras, Gunnar Krüger, Tobias Kober, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Alexis Roche, Kieran O'Brien

Purpose To suppress the noise, by sacrificing some of the signal homogeneity for numerical stability, in uniform T1 weighted (T1w) images obtained with the magnetization prepared 2 rapid gradient echoes sequence (MP2RAGE) and to compare the clinical utilit ...

Public Library of Science2014

Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Fingerprint Using Multicontrast MRI

Gloria Menegaz, Jean-Philippe Thiran, Djalel Eddine Meskaldji, Guillaume Bonnier, David Paul Roger Romascano, Gunnar Krüger, Cristina Granziera, Alexis Roche, Ying-Chia Lin

Conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measures of multiple sclerosis patients provide limited information about the nature and the extent of brain damage and repair. We established a clinically compatible protocol including quantitative MRI techniq ...

2014

FID navigator triggered acquisition of imaging navigators for retrospective head motion correction

Reto Meuli, Rolf Gruetter, Gunnar Krüger, Maryna Volodimirivna Waszak, Pavel Falkovskiy

2014

Volume-based vs. voxel-based brain morphometry in Alzheimer's disease prediction

Meritxell Bach Cuadra, Reto Meuli, Bénédicte Marie Maréchal, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Daniel Andreas Schmitter, Gunnar Krüger, Ahmed Abdulkadir, Cristina Granziera, Alessandro Daducci, Alexis Roche

Voxel-based morphometry from conventional T1-weighted images has proved effective to quantify Alzheimer's disease (AD) related brain atrophy and to enable accurate automated classification of AD patients, mild cognitive impaired (MCI) patients and elderly ...

Proceedings of 23rd International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) Conference2014

Advanced MRI unravels the nature of tissue alterations in early multiple sclerosis

Gloria Menegaz, Jean-Philippe Thiran, Djalel Eddine Meskaldji, Guillaume Bonnier, David Paul Roger Romascano, Gunnar Krüger, Cristina Granziera, Alexis Roche, Ying-Chia Lin

In patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides only limited insights into the nature of brain damage with modest clinic-radiological correlation. In this study, we applied recent advances in MRI techniques ...

2014

Hybrid MP-RAGE Trajectory with FID Motion Detection and Self-Navigated Motion Correction (MoCoRAGE)

Gunnar Krüger, Tobias Kober, Davide Piccini

2013