[HTML][HTML] What's new and what's next in diffusion MRI preprocessing

CMW Tax, M Bastiani, J Veraart, E Garyfallidis… - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
Diffusion MRI (dMRI) provides invaluable information for the study of tissue microstructure
and brain connectivity, but suffers from a range of imaging artifacts that greatly challenge the …

MRI of healthy brain aging: A review

ME MacDonald, GB Pike - NMR in Biomedicine, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We present a review of the characterization of healthy brain aging using MRI with an
emphasis on morphology, lesions, and quantitative MR parameters. A scope review found …

[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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Axial and radial axonal diffusivities and radii from single encoding strongly diffusion-weighted MRI

M Pizzolato, EJ Canales-Rodríguez, M Andersson… - Medical Image …, 2023 - Elsevier
We enable the estimation of the per-axon axial diffusivity from single encoding, strongly
diffusion-weighted, pulsed gradient spin echo data. Additionally, we improve the estimation …

[HTML][HTML] Bundle myelin fraction (BMF) mapping of different white matter connections using microstructure informed tractography

S Schiavi, PJ Lu, M Weigel, A Lutti, DK Jones… - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
To date, we have scarce information about the relative myelination level of different fiber
bundles in the human brain. Indirect evidence comes from postmortem histology data but …

[HTML][HTML] Orientation dependence of R2 relaxation in the newborn brain

LM Bartels, J Doucette, C Birkl, Y Zhang, AM Weber… - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
In MRI the transverse relaxation rate, R 2= 1/T 2, shows dependence on the orientation of
ordered tissue relative to the main magnetic field. In previous studies, orientation effects of R …

Axon fiber orientation as the source of T1 relaxation anisotropy in white matter: A study on corpus callosum in vivo and ex vivo

RA Kauppinen, J Thothard… - Magnetic resonance …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Recent studies indicate that T1 in white matter (WM) is influenced by fiber
orientation in B0. The purpose of the study was to investigate the interrelationships between …

Myelin biomarkers in the healthy adult brain: Correlation, reproducibility, and the effect of fiber orientation

SR Morris, IM Vavasour, A Smolina… - Magnetic …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose We investigated the correlation, reproducibility, and effect of white matter fiber
orientation for three myelin‐sensitive MRI techniques: magnetization transfer ratio (MTR) …

Volume electron microscopy in injured rat brain validates white matter microstructure metrics from diffusion MRI

R Coronado-Leija, A Abdollahzadeh, HH Lee… - Imaging …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
Biophysical modeling of diffusion MRI (dMRI) offers the exciting potential of bridging the gap
between the macroscopic MRI resolution and microscopic cellular features, effectively …