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Abstract #1058

Property Differences in White Matter Structures due to Distinct Wave Propagation Directions in MR Elastography

Aaron T Anderson 1 , Curtis L Johnson 2 , Joseph L Holtrop 2,3 , Elijah EW Van Houten 4,5 , Mathew DJ McGarry 5 , Keith D Paulsen 5,6 , Bradley P Sutton 2,3 , and John G Georgiadis 1,2

1 Mechanical Science & Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, 2 Beckman Institute for Advanced Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, 3 Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, 4 Département de Génie Mécanique, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, 5 Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, 6 Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, United States

Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is an emerging technique for characterizing the mechanical property changes in the brain during aging or when it is affected by a neurodegenerative disease. The success of MRE as a diagnostic technique relies on improving the fidelity of material property reconstructions. The isotropic-based nonlinear inversion of the material property maps predicts significant differences when distinctly different wave propagation fields are used. Analyzing the wave direction relative to neuron bundle orientation informs our understanding of the effects on the isotropic model and points to the need for improved material models characterizing the microstructure.

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