Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging towards clinical application in multiple sclerosis

C Granziera, J Wuerfel, F Barkhof, M Calabrese… - Brain, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Quantitative MRI provides biophysical measures of the microstructural integrity of the CNS,
which can be compared across CNS regions, patients, and centres. In patients with multiple …

Iron, myelin, and the brain: neuroimaging meets neurobiology

HE Möller, L Bossoni, JR Connor, RR Crichton… - Trends in …, 2019 - cell.com
Although iron is crucial for neuronal functioning, many aspects of cerebral iron biology await
clarification. The ability to quantify specific iron forms in the living brain would open new …

Promoting remyelination in multiple sclerosis

N Cunniffe, A Coles - Journal of neurology, 2021 - Springer
The greatest unmet need in multiple sclerosis (MS) are treatments that delay, prevent or
reverse progression. One of the most tractable strategies to achieve this is to therapeutically …

MWF of the corpus callosum is a robust measure of remyelination: Results from the ReBUILD trial

E Caverzasi, N Papinutto, C Cordano… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Myelin repair is an unrealized therapeutic goal in the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS).
Uncertainty remains about the optimal techniques for assessing therapeutic efficacy and …

So you want to image myelin using MRI: an overview and practical guide for myelin water imaging

J Lee, JW Hyun, J Lee, EJ Choi… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Myelin water imaging (MWI) is an MRI imaging biomarker for myelin. This method can
generate an in vivo whole‐brain myelin water fraction map in approximately 10 minutes. It …

Probing myelin content of the human brain with MRI: A review

GF Piredda, T Hilbert, JP Thiran… - Magnetic resonance in …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid and efficient transmission of electric signals among neurons of vertebrates is ensured
by myelin‐insulating sheaths surrounding axons. Human cognition, sensation, and motor …

An atlas for human brain myelin content throughout the adult life span

AV Dvorak, T Swift-LaPointe, IM Vavasour, LE Lee… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Myelin water imaging is a quantitative neuroimaging technique that provides the myelin
water fraction (MWF), a metric highly specific to myelin content, and the intra-/extra-cellular …

Human white matter myelinates faster in utero than ex utero

M Grotheer, D Bloom, J Kruper… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The formation of myelin, the fatty sheath that insulates nerve fibers, is critical for healthy
brain function. A fundamental open question is what impact being born has on myelin …

[HTML][HTML] Imaging transcriptomics: Convergent cellular, transcriptomic, and molecular neuroimaging signatures in the healthy adult human brain

D Martins, A Giacomel, SCR Williams, F Turkheimer… - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
The integration of transcriptomic and neuroimaging data," imaging transcriptomics," has
recently emerged to generate hypotheses about potential biological pathways underlying …

White matter tract myelin maturation and its association with general psychopathology in adolescence and early adulthood

LD Vanes, M Moutoussis, G Ziegler… - Human brain …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Adolescence is a time period associated with marked brain maturation that coincides with an
enhanced risk for onset of psychiatric disorder. White matter tract myelination, a process that …