ArticleImaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)
TRAMFIX: TRavelling Across Melbourne for FIXel-based analysis (a reproducibility and reliability study).
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Abstract
Fixel-based analysis (FBA) has gained substantial interest for its ability to probe fibre-specific changes in the brain's white matter from diffusion-weighted imaging data. However, the reproducibility and reliability of fixel-based measures across different scanners remains largely unknown. In this work, we present TRAMFIX (TRavelling Across Melbourne for FIXel-based analysis): a multisite dataset of traveling participants (n = 10 healthy adults) scanned across four 3T MRI scanners using a harmonised multi-shell diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) protocol. DWI data were processed using two pipelines that can be adopted when performing multi-site FBA studies (site-specific vs. pooled processing). We extracted fixel-based measures of fibre density (FD), fibre cross-section (FC), and fibre density and cross-section (FDC) from the harmonized protocol. While the primary goal was to assess reproducibility and reliability of FBA metrics, we additionally computed diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)-based fractional anisotropy (FA) and mean diffusivity (MD) for the purposes of comparison with previous studies. Within-subject coefficients of variation (CV
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