A hitchhiker's guide to diffusion tensor imaging

JM Soares, P Marques, V Alves, N Sousa - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) studies are increasingly popular among clinicians and
researchers as they provide unique insights into brain network connectivity. However, in …

Advances in MRI methodology

T Yousaf, G Dervenoulas, M Politis - International review of neurobiology, 2018 - Elsevier
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a non-invasive technique which can provide
comprehensive, multi-parametric information on brain anatomy, function and metabolism …

Multi-tissue constrained spherical deconvolution for improved analysis of multi-shell diffusion MRI data

B Jeurissen, JD Tournier, T Dhollander, A Connelly… - NeuroImage, 2014 - Elsevier
Constrained spherical deconvolution (CSD) has become one of the most widely used
methods to extract white matter (WM) fibre orientation information from diffusion-weighted …

Q-space trajectory imaging for multidimensional diffusion MRI of the human brain

CF Westin, H Knutsson, O Pasternak… - Neuroimage, 2016 - Elsevier
This work describes a new diffusion MR framework for imaging and modeling of
microstructure that we call q-space trajectory imaging (QTI). The QTI framework consists of …

Investigating the prevalence of complex fiber configurations in white matter tissue with diffusion magnetic resonance imaging

B Jeurissen, A Leemans, JD Tournier… - Human brain …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
It has long been recognized that the diffusion tensor model is inappropriate to characterize
complex fiber architecture, causing tensor‐derived measures such as the primary …

Atlasing the frontal lobe connections and their variability due to age and education: a spherical deconvolution tractography study

K Rojkova, E Volle, M Urbanski, F Humbert… - Brain Structure and …, 2016 - Springer
In neuroscience, there is a growing consensus that higher cognitive functions may be
supported by distributed networks involving different cerebral regions, rather than by single …

[HTML][HTML] Quantification of microscopic diffusion anisotropy disentangles effects of orientation dispersion from microstructure: applications in healthy volunteers and in …

F Szczepankiewicz, S Lasič, D van Westen… - Neuroimage, 2015 - Elsevier
The anisotropy of water diffusion in brain tissue is affected by both disease and
development. This change can be detected using diffusion MRI and is often quantified by the …

Learning to read improves the structure of the arcuate fasciculus

M Thiebaut de Schotten, L Cohen, E Amemiya… - Cerebral …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The acquisition of literacy results from an effortful learning process that leads to functional
changes in several cortical regions. We explored whether learning to read also leads to …

Microstructural white matter abnormalities and cognitive functioning in type 2 diabetes: a diffusion tensor imaging study

YD Reijmer, M Brundel, J De Bresser… - Diabetes …, 2013 - Am Diabetes Assoc
OBJECTIVE To examine whether type 2 diabetes is associated with microstructural
abnormalities in specific cerebral white matter tracts and to relate these microstructural …

[HTML][HTML] Using diffusion MRI data acquired with ultra-high gradient strength to improve tractography in routine-quality data

C Maffei, C Lee, M Planich, M Ramprasad, N Ravi… - Neuroimage, 2021 - Elsevier
The development of scanners with ultra-high gradient strength, spearheaded by the Human
Connectome Project, has led to dramatic improvements in the spatial, angular, and diffusion …