Physical and numerical phantoms for the validation of brain microstructural MRI: A cookbook

E Fieremans, HH Lee - Neuroimage, 2018 - Elsevier
Phantoms, both numerical (software) and physical (hardware), can serve as a gold standard
for the validation of MRI methods probing the brain microstructure. This review aims to …

Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging of brain anatomy and in vivo histology

N Weiskopf, LJ Edwards, G Helms… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (qMRI) goes beyond conventional MRI, which
aims primarily at local image contrast. It provides specific physical parameters related to the …

Imaging brain microstructure with diffusion MRI: practicality and applications

DC Alexander, TB Dyrby, M Nilsson… - NMR in …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This article gives an overview of microstructure imaging of the brain with diffusion MRI and
reviews the state of the art. The microstructure‐imaging paradigm aims to estimate and map …

[HTML][HTML] Robust Monte-Carlo simulations in diffusion-MRI: Effect of the substrate complexity and parameter choice on the reproducibility of results

J Rafael-Patino, D Romascano… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Monte-Carlo Diffusion Simulations (MCDS) have been used extensively as a ground truth
tool for the validation of microstructure models for Diffusion-Weighted MRI. However …

[HTML][HTML] Robust and fast Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling of diffusion MRI microstructure models

RL Harms, A Roebroeck - Frontiers in neuroinformatics, 2018 - frontiersin.org
In diffusion MRI analysis, advances in biophysical multi-compartment modeling have gained
popularity over the conventional Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI), because they can obtain a …

Validation of diffusion MRI estimates of compartment size and volume fraction in a biomimetic brain phantom using a human MRI scanner with 300 mT/m maximum …

Q Fan, A Nummenmaa, B Wichtmann, T Witzel… - Neuroimage, 2018 - Elsevier
Diffusion microstructural imaging techniques have attracted great interest in the last decade
due to their ability to quantify axon diameter and volume fraction in healthy and diseased …

Towards microstructure fingerprinting: estimation of tissue properties from a dictionary of Monte Carlo diffusion MRI simulations

G Rensonnet, B Scherrer, G Girard, A Jankovski… - NeuroImage, 2019 - Elsevier
Many closed-form analytical models have been proposed to relate the diffusion-weighted
magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) signal to microstructural features of white matter …

A ranking of diffusion MRI compartment models with in vivo human brain data

U Ferizi, T Schneider, E Panagiotaki… - Magnetic resonance …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) microstructure imaging provides a
unique noninvasive probe into tissue microstructure. The technique relies on biophysically …

The present and the future of microstructure MRI: From a paradigm shift to normal science

DS Novikov - Journal of neuroscience methods, 2021 - Elsevier
The aspiration of imaging tissue microstructure with MRI is to uncover micrometer-scale
tissue features within millimeter-scale imaging voxels, in vivo. This kind of super-resolution …

[HTML][HTML] Developing 3D microscopy with CLARITY on human brain tissue: Towards a tool for informing and validating MRI-based histology

M Morawski, E Kirilina, N Scherf, C Jäger, K Reimann… - Neuroimage, 2018 - Elsevier
Recent breakthroughs in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) enabled quantitative
relaxometry and diffusion-weighted imaging with sub-millimeter resolution. Combined with …