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ArticleScientific reports2024

Susceptibility-induced internal gradients reveal axon morphology and cause anisotropic effects in the diffusion-weighted MRI signal.

S Winther, H Lundell, J Rafael-Patiño, M Andersson, J-P Thiran, T B Dyrby

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S WintherDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark. siwin@dtu.dk.
H LundellDanish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital - Amager and Hvidovre, 2650, Copenhagen, Denmark.
J Rafael-PatiñoSignal Processing Laboratory (LTS5), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
M AnderssonDanish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital - Amager and Hvidovre, 2650, Copenhagen, Denmark.
J-P ThiranSignal Processing Laboratory (LTS5), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
T B DyrbyDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark. timd@drcmr.dk.

Funding

Capital Region Research Foundation Grant A5657DTU Alliance Stipend 102682European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme 804746European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme 101044180
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Abstract

Diffusion-weighted MRI is our most promising method for estimating microscopic tissue morphology in vivo. The signal acquisition is based on scanner-generated external magnetic gradients. However, it will also be affected by susceptibility-induced internal magnetic gradients caused by interactions between the tissue and the static magnetic field of the scanner. With 3D in silico experiments, we show how internal gradients cause morphology-, compartment-, and orientation-dependence of spin-echo and pulsed-gradient spin-echo experiments in myelinated axons. These effects surpass those observed with previous 2D modelling corresponding to straight cylinders. For an ex vivo monkey brain, we observe the orientation-dependence generated only when including non-circular cross-sections in the in silico morphological configurations, and find orientation-dependent deviation of up to 17% for diffusion tensor metrics. Interestingly, we find that the orientation-dependence not only biases the signal across different brain regions, but also carries a sensitivity to the morphology of axonal cross-sections which is not attainable by the idealised theoretical diffusion-weighted MRI signal.

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AxonsDiffusion Magnetic Resonance ImagingAnimalsAnisotropyBrainComputer Simulation

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