From the *Advanced Clinical Imaging Technology, Siemens Healthcare AG; †Department of Radiology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; ‡Centre for Advanced Imaging, University of Queensland; §Siemens Healthcare Pty Ltd, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; ∥Department of Radiology, Valais Hospital, Sion, Switzerland; ¶Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; #Signal Processing Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; **Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc, Malvem, PA; ††Medical Image Analysis Laboratory, Centre d'Imagerie BioMédicale; and ‡‡Neuroimmunology Unit, Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Received for publication August 12, 2016; and accepted for publication, after revision, October 11, 2016.
Conflicts of interest and sources of funding: Supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation under grant PZ00P3_131914/11, The Swiss Government: Federal Commission for Scholarships for Foreign Students, The Swiss MS Society and the Societé Académique Vaudoise, the Centre d'Imagerie BioMédicale (CIBM) of the University of Lausanne (UNIL), the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), the University of Geneva (UniGe), the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUG), and the Leenaards and the Jeantet Foundations. The funding sources had no role in study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the article for publication.
M.J.F., K.O., G.K. and T.K. are Siemens employees. For the remaining authors, none were declared.
Correspondence to: Mário João Fartaria, MSc, Advanced Clinical Imaging Technology, Siemens Healthcare AG, EPFL Innovation Park, Bâtiment E 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland. E-mail: [email protected].