Using fiber ball imaging (FBI), we isolate the intra-axonal compartment of the white matter with strong diffusion weighting in order to suppress the extra-axonal water fraction and then calculate its associated fractional anisotropy (FA). We call this parameter the fractional anisotropy axonal (FAA) in contrast to the conventional FA, and we compare these two measures in three subjects: a healthy young adult, a cognitively intact older adult with severe white matter abnormalities, and a neonate with acute hypoxic ischemic injury. Our results indicate that FAA reveals diffusion anisotropy that is not apparent using the conventional FA.
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