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ArticleMagnetic resonance in medicine2017

New insights about time-varying diffusivity and its estimation from diffusion MRI.

Lipeng Ning, Kawin Setsompop, Carl-Fredrik Westin, Yogesh Rathi

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Lipeng NingDepartment of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Kawin SetsompopAthinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Carl-Fredrik WestinDepartment of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Yogesh RathiDepartment of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

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Training and DisseminationP41EB015902 · NIBIB · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI WELLS, WILLIAM M. · 2012 to 2022
$20.9M
NIBIB NIH HHS P41 EB015902
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeCharacterizing the relation between the applied gradient sequences and the measured diffusion MRI signal is important for estimating the time-dependent diffusivity, which provides important information about the microscopic tissue structure. THEORY AND

methodsIn this article, we extend the classical theory of Stepišnik for measuring time-dependent diffusivity under the Gaussian phase approximation. In particular, we derive three novel expressions which represent the diffusion MRI signal in terms of the mean-squared displacement, the instantaneous diffusivity, and the velocity autocorrelation function. We present the explicit signal expressions for the case of single diffusion encoding and oscillating gradient spin-echo sequences. Additionally, we also propose three different models to represent time-varying diffusivity and test them using Monte-Carlo simulations and in vivo human brain data.

resultsThe time-varying diffusivities are able to distinguish the synthetic structures in the Monte-Carlo simulations. There is also strong statistical evidence about time-varying diffusivity from the in vivo human data set.

conclusionThe proposed theory provides new insights into our understanding of the time-varying diffusivity using different gradient sequences. The proposed models for representing time-varying diffusivity can be utilized to study time-varying diffusivity using in vivo human brain diffusion MRI data. Magn Reson Med 78:763-774, 2017. © 2016 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.

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Models, StatisticalBrainComputer SimulationDiffusion Magnetic Resonance ImagingHumansImage Processing, Computer-Assistedautocorrelation functiondiffusion MRImean-squared displacementoscillating gradient spin-echosingle-diffusion encodingtime-varying diffusivity

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PMCPMC5344793

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