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ArticleNeuroImage2016

T1 relaxometry of crossing fibres in the human brain.

Silvia De Santis, Yaniv Assaf, Ben Jeurissen, Derek K Jones, Alard Roebroeck

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Article in NeuroImage, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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5 authors.

Silvia De SantisCUBRIC, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 4HQ,UK; Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands. Electronic address: desantiss@cardiff.ac.uk.
Yaniv AssafDepartment of Neurobiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
Ben JeurisseniMinds-Vision Lab, Dept. of Physics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
Derek K JonesCUBRIC, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 4HQ,UK; Neuroscience & Mental Health Research Institute, Cardiff University, CF10 3AT,UK.
Alard RoebroeckMaastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Funding

European Research Council 639938
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A comprehensive tract-based characterisation of white matter should include the ability to quantify myelin and axonal attributes irrespective of the complexity of fibre organisation within the voxel. Recently, a new experimental framework that combines inversion recovery and diffusion MRI, called inversion recovery diffusion tensor imaging (IR-DTI), was introduced and applied in an animal study. IR-DTI provides the ability to assign to each unique fibre population within a voxel a specific value of the longitudinal relaxation time, T1, which is a proxy for myelin content. Here, we apply the IR-DTI approach to the human brain in vivo on 7 healthy subjects for the first time. We demonstrate that the approach is able to measure differential tract properties in crossing fibre areas, reflecting the different myelination of tracts. We also show that tract-specific T1 has less inter-subject variability compared to conventional T1 in areas of crossing fibres, suggesting increased specificity to distinct fibre populations. Finally we show in simulations that changes in myelination selectively affecting one fibre bundle in crossing fibre areas can potentially be detected earlier using IR-DTI.

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AdultBrainDiffusion Tensor ImagingFemaleHumansImage EnhancementImage Interpretation, Computer-AssistedMaleMyelin SheathNerve Fibers, MyelinatedReproducibility of ResultsSensitivity and SpecificityWhite MatterDTIInversion recoveryMyelinationT(1)

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PMID27444568
PMCPMC5035137

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