Recent studies suggest that Neurite Orientation Dispersion and Density Imaging (NODDI) provides valuable information about cortical neurites. However, it requires lengthy time to acquire multi-shell data of diffusion weighted imaging (DWI), as well as to calculate parameters, neurite density index (NDI) and orientation dispersion index (ODI). We propose a method to estimate cortical NDI and ODI from diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), which is based on a mathematical relationship between NODDI and DTI assuming negligible cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the cortex. We also show the accuracy and time for scanning and computation.
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