Quantifying brain microstructure with diffusion MRI: Theory and parameter estimation

DS Novikov, E Fieremans, SN Jespersen… - NMR in …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We review, systematize and discuss models of diffusion in neuronal tissue, by putting them
into an overarching physical context of coarse‐graining over an increasing diffusion length …

Modelling white matter with spherical deconvolution: How and why?

F Dell'Acqua, JD Tournier - NMR in Biomedicine, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Since the realization that diffusion MRI can probe the microstructural organization and
orientation of biological tissue in vivo and non‐invasively, a multitude of diffusion imaging …

Apparent fibre density: a novel measure for the analysis of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance images

D Raffelt, JD Tournier, S Rose, GR Ridgway… - Neuroimage, 2012 - Elsevier
This article proposes a new measure called Apparent Fibre Density (AFD) for the analysis of
high angular resolution diffusion-weighted images using higher-order information provided …

Robust determination of the fibre orientation distribution in diffusion MRI: non-negativity constrained super-resolved spherical deconvolution

JD Tournier, F Calamante, A Connelly - Neuroimage, 2007 - Elsevier
Diffusion-weighted (DW) MR images contain information about the orientation of brain white
matter fibres that potentially can be used to study human brain connectivity in vivo using …

Direct estimation of the fiber orientation density function from diffusion-weighted MRI data using spherical deconvolution

JD Tournier, F Calamante, DG Gadian, A Connelly - Neuroimage, 2004 - Elsevier
Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging can provide information related to the
arrangement of white matter fibers. The diffusion tensor is the model most commonly used to …

Rotationally-invariant mapping of scalar and orientational metrics of neuronal microstructure with diffusion MRI

DS Novikov, J Veraart, IO Jelescu, E Fieremans - NeuroImage, 2018 - Elsevier
We develop a general analytical and numerical framework for estimating intra-and extra-
neurite water fractions and diffusion coefficients, as well as neurite orientational dispersion …

Recent advances in directional statistics

A Pewsey, E García-Portugués - Test, 2021 - Springer
Mainstream statistical methodology is generally applicable to data observed in Euclidean
space. There are, however, numerous contexts of considerable scientific interest in which …

Q‐ball reconstruction of multimodal fiber orientations using the spherical harmonic basis

CP Hess, P Mukherjee, ET Han, D Xu… - … in Medicine: An …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) accurately delineates white matter pathways when the
Gaussian model of diffusion is valid. However, DTI yields erroneous results when diffusion …

Convergence rates of general regularization methods for statistical inverse problems and applications

N Bissantz, T Hohage, A Munk, F Ruymgaart - SIAM Journal on Numerical …, 2007 - SIAM
Previously, the convergence analysis for linear statistical inverse problems has mainly
focused on spectral cut-off and Tikhonov-type estimators. Spectral cut-off estimators achieve …

[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 …