Anthony Jacob Sherbondy1,
Tim B. Dyrby2, Matthew C. Rowe3, Maurice Ptito2,4,
Brian A. Wandell1, Daniel C. Alexander3
1Psychology Department,
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA; 2Danish Research Centre
for Magnetic Resonance, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Hvidovre,
Denmark; 3Centre for Medical Image Computing, University College
London, London, United Kingdom; 4School of Optometry, University
of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
MicroTrack combines whole-brain global tractography and local tissue microstructure estimation. The algorithm simultaneously estimates macrostructure (tract cross-section and connectivity) and microstructure (average axon radii and axon volume fraction) parameters for a white matter connectome using a mutliscale forward model. To date, tractography algorithms and microstructure parameter estimation operate entirely independently. However, connectivity and microstructure estimates have great potential to inform one another. We use MicroTrack to demonstrate this hypothesis for the first time on synthetic data and post-mortem monkey-brain data.
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