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ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2021

Transient Anomalous Diffusion MRI in Excised Mouse Spinal Cord: Comparison Among Different Diffusion Metrics and Validation With Histology.

Alessandra Caporale, Giovanni Battista Bonomo, Giulio Tani Raffaelli, Ada Maria Tata, Bice Avallone, Felix Werner Wehrli, Silvia Capuani

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Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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7 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Alessandra CaporaleNMR and Medical Physics Laboratory, Institute for Complex Systems of National Research Council (CNR-ISC), Rome, Italy.
Giovanni Battista BonomoDepartment of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Giulio Tani RaffaelliDepartment of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Ada Maria TataDepartment of Biology and Biotechnologies Charles Darwin, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Bice AvalloneDepartment of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy.
Felix Werner WehrliLaboratory for Structural, Physiologic and Functional Imaging, Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Silvia CapuaniNMR and Medical Physics Laboratory, Institute for Complex Systems of National Research Council (CNR-ISC), Rome, Italy.
Sapienza University of Rome · ITUniversity of Pennsylvania · USInstitute for Complex Systems · ITUniversity of Naples Federico II · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neural tissue is a hierarchical multiscale system with intracellular and extracellular diffusion compartments at different length scales. The normal diffusion of bulk water in tissues is not able to detect the specific features of a complex system, providing nonlocal, diffusion measurement averaged on a 10-20 μm length scale. Being able to probe tissues with sub-micrometric diffusion length and quantify new local parameters, transient anomalous diffusion (tAD) would dramatically increase the diagnostic potential of diffusion MRI (DMRI) in detecting collective and sub-micro architectural changes of human tissues due to pathological damage. In DMRI, the use of tAD parameters quantified using specific DMRI acquisition protocols and their interpretation has often aroused skepticism. Although the derived formulas may accurately fit experimental diffusion-weighted data, the relationships between the postulated dynamical feature and the underlying geometrical structure remains elusive, or at most only suggestive. This work aimed to elucidate and validate the image contrast and information that can be obtained using the tAD model in white matter (WM) through a direct comparison between different diffusion metrics and histology. Towards this goal, we compared tAD metrics extracted from pure subdiffusion (α-imaging) and super-pseudodiffusion (γ-imaging) in excised mouse spinal cord WM, together with T2 and T2* relaxometry, conventional (normal diffusion-based) diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and q-space imaging (QSI), with morphologic measures obtained by optical microscopy, to determine which structural and topological characteristics of myelinated axons influenced tAD contrast. Axon diameter (AxDiam), the standard deviation of diameters (SD

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diffusion parameters validationDTIhistologymicrostructuresmouse spinal cordq-space imagingtransient anomalous diffusionwhite matter (WM)

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