Potential pitfalls of using fractional anisotropy, axial diffusivity, and radial diffusivity as biomarkers of cerebral white matter microstructure

CR Figley, MN Uddin, K Wong, J Kornelsen… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Fractional anisotropy (FA), axial diffusivity (AD), and radial diffusivity (RD) are commonly
used as MRI biomarkers of white matter microstructure in diffusion MRI studies of …

Brain structural and functional connectivity: a review of combined works of diffusion magnetic resonance imaging and electro-encephalography

P Babaeeghazvini, LM Rueda-Delgado… - Frontiers in Human …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Implications of structural connections within and between brain regions for their functional
counterpart are timely points of discussion. White matter microstructural organization and …

[HTML][HTML] Neurite Exchange Imaging (NEXI): A minimal model of diffusion in gray matter with inter-compartment water exchange

IO Jelescu, A de Skowronski, F Geffroy, M Palombo… - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
Biophysical models of diffusion in white matter have been center-stage over the past two
decades and are essentially based on what is now commonly referred to as the “Standard …

[HTML][HTML] Diffusion time dependence, power-law scaling, and exchange in gray matter

JL Olesen, L Østergaard, N Shemesh, SN Jespersen - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
Characterizing neural tissue microstructure is a critical goal for future neuroimaging.
Diffusion MRI (dMRI) provides contrasts that reflect diffusing spins' interactions with myriad …

[HTML][HTML] Diffusion-weighted imaging: recent advances and applications

E Martinez-Heras, F Grussu, F Prados, E Solana… - Seminars in Ultrasound …, 2021 - Elsevier
Quantitative diffusion imaging techniques enable the characterization of tissue
microstructural properties of the human brain “in vivo”, and are widely used in neuroscientific …

[HTML][HTML] Post mortem mapping of connectional anatomy for the validation of diffusion MRI

A Yendiki, M Aggarwal, M Axer, AFD Howard… - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is a unique tool for the study of brain circuitry, as it allows us to image
both the macroscopic trajectories and the microstructural properties of axon bundles in vivo …

[HTML][HTML] Gradient waveform design for tensor-valued encoding in diffusion MRI

F Szczepankiewicz, CF Westin, M Nilsson - Journal of Neuroscience …, 2021 - Elsevier
Diffusion encoding along multiple spatial directions per signal acquisition can be described
in terms of a b-tensor. The benefit of tensor-valued diffusion encoding is that it unlocks …

[HTML][HTML] Probing brain tissue microstructure with MRI: principles, challenges, and the role of multidimensional diffusion-relaxation encoding

B Lampinen, F Szczepankiewicz, J Lätt, L Knutsson… - NeuroImage, 2023 - Elsevier
Diffusion MRI uses the random displacement of water molecules to sensitize the signal to
brain microstructure and to properties such as the density and shape of cells. Microstructure …

Mapping the human connectome using diffusion MRI at 300 mT/m gradient strength: Methodological advances and scientific impact

Q Fan, C Eichner, M Afzali, L Mueller, CMW Tax… - Neuroimage, 2022 - Elsevier
Tremendous efforts have been made in the last decade to advance cutting-edge MRI
technology in pursuit of mapping structural connectivity in the living human brain with …

C-NODDI: a constrained NODDI model for axonal density and orientation determinations in cerebral white matter

MH Alsameen, Z Gong, W Qian, M Kiely… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Purpose Neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging (NODDI) provides measures of
neurite density and dispersion through computation of the neurite density index (NDI) and …