Pierre-Yves Herve1, Eleanor F. Cox2,
Ashley Loftipour2, Olivier Mougin2, Sam Wharton2,
Richard W. Bowtell2, Tomas Paus1, Penny A. Gowland2
1Brain & Body Centre, University of
Nottingham, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom; 2SPMMRC,
Physics & Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham,
Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
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study of human white matter fibre pathways was first performed on post-mortem
material, notably via dissection or with the Weigert staining method for
myelinated fibres (Dejerine, 1895). More recently, diffusion weighted imaging
emerged as a non-invasive alternative for both the tracing and the
measurement of quantitative parameters of fibre pathways. Here we use multimodal
quantitative imaging to assess differences between white matter structures.
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