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Abstract #0730

Estimating intra-axonal axial diffusivity with diffusion MRI in the presence of fibre orientation dispersion

Amy FD Howard1, Alexandre A Khrapitchev2, Jeroen Mollink1,3, Rogier B Mars1,4, Nicola Sibson2, Jerome Sallet5, Saad Jbabdi1, and Karla L Miller1
1FMRIB Centre, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2CR-UK/MRC Oxford Institute for Radiation Oncology, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 3Department of Anatomy, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 4Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 5Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Experimental Psychology, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Intra-axonal axial diffusivity could be interesting biomarker of disease, yet it is often assumed constant across the white matter. Furthermore, when intra-axonal diffusivity is estimated, few models account for fibre orientation dispersion which (when not explicitly modelled) will greatly affect the estimates of axial diffusion. Here we combine the stick model of intra-axonal diffusion with a simple model of fibre dispersion to simultaneously estimate intra-axonal axial diffusivity and fibre dispersion on a voxel-wise basis in high b-value data. Our results demonstrate considerable variability in the intra-axonal axial diffusivity across the white matter.

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