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ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2023

Evaluation of tractography-based myelin-weighted connectivity across the lifespan.

Sara Bosticardo, Simona Schiavi, Sabine Schaedelin, Matteo Battocchio, Muhamed Barakovic, Po-Jui Lu, Matthias Weigel, Lester Melie-Garcia, Cristina Granziera, Alessandro Daducci

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Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Sara BosticardoDiffusion Imaging and Connectivity Estimation (DICE) Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
Simona SchiaviDiffusion Imaging and Connectivity Estimation (DICE) Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
Sabine SchaedelinTranslational Imaging in Neurology (ThINK), Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Matteo BattocchioDiffusion Imaging and Connectivity Estimation (DICE) Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
Muhamed BarakovicTranslational Imaging in Neurology (ThINK), Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Po-Jui LuTranslational Imaging in Neurology (ThINK), Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Matthias WeigelTranslational Imaging in Neurology (ThINK), Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Lester Melie-GarciaTranslational Imaging in Neurology (ThINK), Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Cristina GranzieraTranslational Imaging in Neurology (ThINK), Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Alessandro DaducciDiffusion Imaging and Connectivity Estimation (DICE) Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
University Hospital of Basel · CHUniversity of Verona · ITUniversity of Basel · CHColumbus Superconductors (Italy) · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Introduction: Recent studies showed that the myelin of the brain changes in the life span, and demyelination contributes to the loss of brain plasticity during normal aging. Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) allows studying brain connectivity Methods: In a group of 85 healthy controls aged between 18 and 68 years, we estimated myelin-weighted connectomes using Tractometry and MySD, and compared their modulation with age by means of three well-known global network metrics. Results: Following the literature, our results show that myelin development continues until brain maturation (40 years old), after which degeneration begins. In particular, mean connectivity strength and efficiency show an increasing trend up to 40 years, after which the process reverses. Both Tractometry and MySD are sensitive to these changes, but MySD turned out to be more accurate. Conclusion: After regressing the known predictors, MySD results in lower residual error, indicating that MySD provides more accurate estimates of myelin-weighted connectivity than Tractometry.

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brain agingmicrostructure informed tractographymyelin network architecturemyelin weighted connectomestructural connectivitytractography

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