Phase‐shifted transverse relaxation orientation dependences in human brain white matter

Y Pang - NMR in Biomedicine, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This work aimed to demonstrate an essential phase shift ε 0 for better quantifying R 2 and R
2* in human brain white matter (WM), and to further elucidate its origin related to the …

Orientation dependent proton transverse relaxation in human brain white matter: The magic angle effect on a cylindrical helix

Y Pang - Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 2023 - Elsevier
Purpose To overcome some limitations of previous proton orientation-dependent transverse
relaxation formalisms in the human brain white matter (WM) by a generalized magic angle …

The impact of head orientation with respect to B0 on diffusion tensor MRI measures

E Kleban, DK Jones, CMW Tax - Imaging Neuroscience, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
Abstract Diffusion tensor MRI (DT-MRI) remains the most commonly used approach to
characterise white matter (WM) anisotropy. However, DT estimates may be affected by tissue …

Is diffusion anisotropy an accurate monitor of myelination?: Correlation of multicomponent T2 relaxation and diffusion tensor anisotropy in human brain

B Mädler, SA Drabycz, SH Kolind, KP Whittall… - Magnetic resonance …, 2008 - Elsevier
We compare T2-relaxation and diffusion tensor data from normal human brain. The
relationships between myelin-water fraction (MWF) and various diffusion tensor measures …

White matter microstructure and longitudinal relaxation time anisotropy in human brain at 3 and 7 T

RA Kauppinen, J Thotland, PK Pisharady… - NMR in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A high degree of structural order by white matter (WM) fibre tracts creates a physicochemical
environment where water relaxations are rendered anisotropic. Recently, angularly …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring compartmental T2-orientational dependence in human brain white matter using a tiltable RF coil and diffusion-T2 correlation MRI

CMW Tax, E Kleban, M Chamberland, M Baraković… - Neuroimage, 2021 - Elsevier
The anisotropy of brain white matter microstructure manifests itself in orientational-
dependence of various MRI contrasts, and can result in significant quantification biases if …

Mapping measures of microscopic diffusion anisotropy in human brain white matter in vivo with double‐wave‐vector diffusion‐weighted imaging

M Lawrenz, J Finsterbusch - Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To demonstrate that rotationally invariant measures of the diffusion anisotropy on a
microscopic scale can be mapped in human brain white matter in vivo. Methods Echo …

Double‐wave‐vector diffusion‐weighted imaging reveals microscopic diffusion anisotropy in the living human brain

M Lawrenz, J Finsterbusch - Magnetic resonance in medicine, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Diffusion‐tensor imaging is widely used to characterize diffusion in biological tissue,
however, the derived anisotropy information, eg, the fractional anisotropy, is ambiguous. For …

The influence of complex white matter architecture on the mean diffusivity in diffusion tensor MRI of the human brain

SB Vos, DK Jones, B Jeurissen, MA Viergever… - Neuroimage, 2012 - Elsevier
In diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DT-MRI), limitations concerning complex
fiber architecture (when an image voxel contains fiber populations with more than one …

Estimation of intra-axonal axial diffusivity by tensor-valued dmri and powder-averaging

M Nilsson, S St-Jean, C Beaulieu… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - archive.ismrm.org
The intra-axonal axial diffusivity (D a) has a prominent role in describing and modeling the
white matter microstructure, but cannot be obtained from regular diffusion tensor imaging …