Quantitative susceptibility mapping allows the determination of a basic physical property in vivo. Early concepts for QSM were introduced a decade ago and more refined methods have been proposed recently to allow the calculation of magnetic susceptibility from a single orientation, in a clinical setup, and with low reconstruction artefacts.

Graz TGV QSM Algorithm (Alpine QSM)

Described in: ** Langkammer, C; Bredies, K; Poser, BA; Barth, M; Reishofer, G; Fan, AP; Bilgic, B; Fazekas, F; Mainero; C; Ropele, S
Fast Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping using 3D EPI and Total Generalized Variation.
Neuroimage. 2015 May 1;111:622-30. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.02.041. PubMed ( PDF)

Download: Python source code for total generalized variation (TGV) based QSM including 3D EPI test data (68 MB) from the paper.

Alternatively, there are docker and singularity images and a description how to use tgv_qsm in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 1.0) available. Kindly provided by Steffen Bollmann.

Siemens has a WIP package for Aera, Skyra, Verio and Prisma scanners (WIP 1122A QSM) implemented by Kieran Oâ€™Brien.

Related: Martin Soellrad's R2* mapping and correction toolbox based on this MRM paper and Christian Tinauer's relaxometry tool, to accelerate R2*, T2, or T1 mapping using a CUDA capable graphic card (a CPU version is provided as well).

Machine learning based QSM Algorithms (Deep QSM)

Together with Steffen Bollmann we are involved in the development of DeepQSM and SHARQnet. Stefan Bollmann has a python version of DeepQSM online in a Jupyter/Colab notebook, which can be tested directly in the browser without installation and GPU. Stefan Heber has written a DeepQSM extension, where background field removal and dipole inversion are performed in a single feed forward network architecture.

QSM Reconstruction Challenge 2.0 (Seoul 2019)

The 2^ndQSM challenge took place at the QSM workshop in Seoul ( conference webpage). The data can be found at the Zenodo repository. There are 2 papers about this challenge: Design of the in silico phantom ( mrm.28716.pdf) and the Report of the results ( mrm.28754.pdf).

QSM Reconstruction Challenge 1.0 (Graz 2016)

MRI data and Matlab source code: qsm_recon_challenge_2016.zip (240 MB).

Paper of the QSM reconstruction challenge: mrm26830.pdf (MRM webpage: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mrm.26830/full).

List of QSM Algorithms

There is an overview of QSM software from Mathieu Boudreau as well as a summary of deep learning based QSM algorithms from Steffen.

4^th QSM Workshop in Graz in 2016

We thank all participants of the 4^th International Workshop on MRI Phase Contrast & Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping in Graz!
Pictures and program at the homepage of the QSM workshop 2016.

This site: http://qsm.neuroimaging.at/

Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping Software