Johannes Lindemeyer1, Ana-Maria
Oros-Peusquens1, Ezequiel Farrher1, Farida Grinberg1,
Nadim Jon Shah1,2
1Institute of Neuroscience
& Medicine - 4, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Juelich, Germany; 2Department
of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, JARA, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
The influence of parallel fibre structures on the static field and on the observed susceptibility are investigated using a diffusion phantom. A series of measurements at various orientations with respect to B0 and comparative simulations are presented. A bulk-susceptibility appears to be insufficient to represent a parallel fibre area. A simple chequerboard fibre-stacking simulation allowed us to produce good correspondence with observed field shifts.