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Abstract #0740

Joint modelling of diffusion MRI and histology

Amy Howard1, Jeroen Mollink1,2, Michiel Kleinnijenhuis1, Menuka Pallebage Gamarallage3, Matteo Bastiani1, Karla L Miller1, and Saad Jbabdi1

1Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2Department of Anatomy, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre (Radboudumc), Nijmegen, Netherlands, 3Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Constrained spherical deconvolution determines the orientation of white matter fibres from the diffusion MRI signal. To do so, the diffusion profile of a single fibre is estimated and assumed constant across the sample. However, the diffusion signal is dependent on microstructural properties such as axonal diameter, packing and myelination, which questions the assumption of a single-fibre response function. This multimodal study combines diffusion MRI with histology from the same tissue sample, to test the validity of a ‘brain-wide’ fibre response function. Preliminary results indicate that in practice the fibre response function is indeed dependent on local anatomy.

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