[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 …

[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 …

Maxwell‐compensated design of asymmetric gradient waveforms for tensor‐valued diffusion encoding

F Szczepankiewicz, CF Westin… - Magnetic resonance in …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Diffusion encoding with asymmetric gradient waveforms is appealing because the
asymmetry provides superior efficiency. However, concomitant gradients may cause a …

Towards unconstrained compartment modeling in white matter using diffusion‐relaxation MRI with tensor‐valued diffusion encoding

B Lampinen, F Szczepankiewicz… - Magnetic resonance …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To optimize diffusion‐relaxation MRI with tensor‐valued diffusion encoding for
precise estimation of compartment‐specific fractions, diffusivities, and T2 values within a two …

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 …

Multidimensional diffusion MRI with spectrally modulated gradients reveals unprecedented microstructural detail

H Lundell, M Nilsson, TB Dyrby, GJM Parker… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Characterization of porous media is essential in a wide range of biomedical and
industrial applications. Microstructural features can be probed non-invasively by diffusion …

Tensor-valued diffusion encoding for diffusional variance decomposition (DIVIDE): Technical feasibility in clinical MRI systems

F Szczepankiewicz, J Sjölund, F Ståhlberg, J Lätt… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Microstructure imaging techniques based on tensor-valued diffusion encoding have gained
popularity within the MRI research community. Unlike conventional diffusion encoding …

Computing and visualising intra‐voxel orientation‐specific relaxation–diffusion features in the human brain

JP de Almeida Martins, CMW Tax… - Human brain …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Diffusion MRI techniques are used widely to study the characteristics of the human brain
connectome in vivo. However, to resolve and characterise white matter (WM) fibres in …

[HTML][HTML] Reproducibility of the standard model of diffusion in white matter on clinical MRI systems

S Coelho, SH Baete, G Lemberskiy, B Ades-Aron… - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
Estimating intra-and extra-axonal microstructure parameters, such as volume fractions and
diffusivities, has been one of the major efforts in brain microstructure imaging with MRI. The …

[HTML][HTML] The dot-compartment revealed? Diffusion MRI with ultra-strong gradients and spherical tensor encoding in the living human brain

CMW Tax, F Szczepankiewicz, M Nilsson, DK Jones - Neuroimage, 2020 - Elsevier
The so-called “dot-compartment” is conjectured in diffusion MRI to represent small spherical
spaces, such as cell bodies, in which the diffusion is restricted in all directions. Previous …