The present and the future of microstructure MRI: From a paradigm shift to normal science

DS Novikov - Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 2021 - Elsevier
The aspiration of imaging tissue microstructure with MRI is to uncover micrometer-scale
tissue features within millimeter-scale imaging voxels, in vivo. This kind of super-resolution …

Radiofrequency microcoils for magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy

AG Webb - Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 2013 - Elsevier
Small radiofrequency coils, often termed “microcoils”, have found extensive use in many
areas of magnetic resonance. Their advantageous properties include a very high intrinsic …

Magnetic resonance microdynamic imaging reveals distinct tissue microenvironments

D Benjamini, PJ Basser - NeuroImage, 2017 - Elsevier
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides a powerful set of tools with which to investigate
biological tissues noninvasively and in vivo. Tissues are heterogeneous in nature; an …

Kurtosis fractional anisotropy, its contrast and estimation by proxy

B Hansen, SN Jespersen - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
The diffusion kurtosis observed with diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) may vary
with direction. This directional variation is summarized in the scalar kurtosis fractional …

Experimental considerations for fast kurtosis imaging

B Hansen, TE Lund, R Sangill, E Stubbe… - Magnetic resonance …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The clinical use of kurtosis imaging is impeded by long acquisitions and
postprocessing. Recently, estimation of mean kurtosis tensor and mean diffusivity () was …

MRI of whole rat brain perivascular network reveals role for ventricles in brain waste clearance

KN Magdoom, A Brown, J Rey, TH Mareci, MA King… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Investigating the mechanisms by which metabolic wastes are cleared from nervous tissue is
important for understanding natural function and the pathophysiology of several …

Fast numerical design of spatial-selective rf pulses in MRI using Krotov and quasi-Newton based optimal control methods

MS Vinding, II Maximov, Z Tošner… - The Journal of chemical …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
The use of increasingly strong magnetic fields in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
improves sensitivity, susceptibility contrast, and spatial or spectral resolution for functional …

Recent developments in fast kurtosis imaging

B Hansen, SN Jespersen - Frontiers in Physics, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) is an extension of the popular diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)
technique. DKI takes into account leading deviations from Gaussian diffusion stemming from …

White matter biomarkers from fast protocols using axially symmetric diffusion kurtosis imaging

B Hansen, AR Khan, N Shemesh, TE Lund… - NMR in …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
White matter tract integrity (WMTI) can characterize brain microstructure in areas with highly
aligned fiber bundles. Several WMTI biomarkers have now been validated against …

[HTML][HTML] An introduction to kurtosis fractional anisotropy

B Hansen - AJNR: American Journal of Neuroradiology, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Neuroradiology and imaging-based diagnostics in general have a dire need for scan
techniques with improved microstructural sensitivity for detection of subtle tissue alterations …