def get_trt(in_meta, in_file=None): """ Calculate the *total readout time* for an input :abbr:`EPI (echo-planar imaging)` scan. There are several procedures to calculate the total readout time. The basic one is that a ``TotalReadoutTime`` field is set in the JSON sidecar. The following examples use an ``'epi.nii.gz'`` file-stub which has 90 pixels in the j-axis encoding direction. >>> meta = {'TotalReadoutTime': 0.02596} >>> get_trt(meta) 0.02596 If the *effective echo spacing* :math:`t_\\text{ees}` (``EffectiveEchoSpacing`` BIDS field) is provided, then the total readout time can be calculated reading the number of voxels along the readout direction :math:`T_\\text{ro}` and the parallel acceleration factor of the EPI :math:`f_\\text{acc}`. .. math :: T_\\text{ro} = t_\\text{ees} \\, (N_\\text{PE} / f_\\text{acc} - 1) >>> meta = {'EffectiveEchoSpacing': 0.00059, ... 'PhaseEncodingDirection': 'j-', ... 'ParallelReductionFactorInPlane': 2} >>> get_trt(meta, in_file='epi.nii.gz') 0.02596 Some vendors, like Philips, store different parameter names: >>> meta = {'WaterFatShift': 8.129, ... 'MagneticFieldStrength': 3, ... 'PhaseEncodingDirection': 'j-', ... 'ParallelReductionFactorInPlane': 2} >>> get_trt(meta, in_file='epi.nii.gz') 0.018721183563864822 """ # Use case 1: TRT is defined trt = in_meta.get('TotalReadoutTime', None) if trt is not None: return trt # All other cases require the parallel acc and npe (N vox in PE dir) acc = float(in_meta.get('ParallelReductionFactorInPlane', 1.0)) npe = nb.load(in_file).shape[_get_pe_index(in_meta)] etl = npe // acc # Use case 2: TRT is defined ees = in_meta.get('EffectiveEchoSpacing', None) if ees is not None: return ees * (etl - 1) # Use case 3 (philips scans) wfs = in_meta.get('WaterFatShift', None) if wfs is not None: fstrength = in_meta['MagneticFieldStrength'] wfd_ppm = 3.4 # water-fat diff in ppm g_ratio_mhz_t = 42.57 # gyromagnetic ratio for proton (1H) in MHz/T wfs_hz = fstrength * wfd_ppm * g_ratio_mhz_t return wfs / wfs_hz raise ValueError('Unknown total-readout time specification')
def get_ees(in_meta, in_file=None): """ Calculate the *effective echo spacing* :math:`t_\\text{ees}` for an input :abbr:`EPI (echo-planar imaging)` scan. There are several procedures to calculate the effective echo spacing. The basic one is that an ``EffectiveEchoSpacing`` field is set in the JSON sidecar. The following examples use an ``'epi.nii.gz'`` file-stub which has 90 pixels in the j-axis encoding direction. >>> meta = {'EffectiveEchoSpacing': 0.00059, ... 'PhaseEncodingDirection': 'j-'} >>> get_ees(meta) 0.00059 If the *total readout time* :math:`T_\\text{ro}` (``TotalReadoutTime`` BIDS field) is provided, then the effective echo spacing can be calculated reading the number of voxels :math:`N_\\text{PE}` along the readout direction and the parallel acceleration factor of the EPI .. math :: = T_\\text{ro} \\, (N_\\text{PE} / f_\\text{acc} - 1)^{-1} where :math:`N_y` is the number of pixels along the phase-encoding direction :math:`y`, and :math:`f_\\text{acc}` is the parallel imaging acceleration factor (:abbr:`GRAPPA (GeneRalized Autocalibrating Partial Parallel Acquisition)`, :abbr:`ARC (Autocalibrating Reconstruction for Cartesian imaging)`, etc.). >>> meta = {'TotalReadoutTime': 0.02596, ... 'PhaseEncodingDirection': 'j-', ... 'ParallelReductionFactorInPlane': 2} >>> get_ees(meta, in_file='epi.nii.gz') 0.00059 Some vendors, like Philips, store different parameter names (see http://dbic.dartmouth.edu/pipermail/mrusers/attachments/\ 20141112/eb1d20e6/attachment.pdf): >>> meta = {'WaterFatShift': 8.129, ... 'MagneticFieldStrength': 3, ... 'PhaseEncodingDirection': 'j-', ... 'ParallelReductionFactorInPlane': 2} >>> get_ees(meta, in_file='epi.nii.gz') 0.00041602630141921826 """ import nibabel as nb from fmriprep.interfaces.fmap import _get_pe_index # Use case 1: EES is defined ees = in_meta.get('EffectiveEchoSpacing', None) if ees is not None: return ees # All other cases require the parallel acc and npe (N vox in PE dir) acc = float(in_meta.get('ParallelReductionFactorInPlane', 1.0)) npe = nb.load(in_file).shape[_get_pe_index(in_meta)] etl = npe // acc # Use case 2: TRT is defined trt = in_meta.get('TotalReadoutTime', None) if trt is not None: return trt / (etl - 1) # Use case 3 (philips scans) wfs = in_meta.get('WaterFatShift', None) if wfs is not None: fstrength = in_meta['MagneticFieldStrength'] wfd_ppm = 3.4 # water-fat diff in ppm g_ratio_mhz_t = 42.57 # gyromagnetic ratio for proton (1H) in MHz/T wfs_hz = fstrength * wfd_ppm * g_ratio_mhz_t return wfs / (wfs_hz * etl) raise ValueError('Unknown effective echo-spacing specification')