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Abstract #4151

Effective axon radii across the human corpus callosum for a group of subjects: comparability between MRI and histology

Laurin Mordhorst1, Mohammad Ashtarayeh1, Maria Morozova2,3, Luke J. J Edwards2, Carsten Jäger2, Henriette Rusch3, Tobias Streubel1, Nikolaus Weiskopf2,4, Markus Morawski2,3, and Siawoosh Mohammadi1,2
1Institute of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany, 2Department of Neurophysics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, 3Paul Flechsig Institute - Center of Neuropathology and Brain Research, Medical Faculty University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, 4Felix Bloch Institute for Solid State Physics, Faculty of Physics and Earth Sciences, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany, Leipzig, Germany

Synopsis

Keywords: Diffusion/other diffusion imaging techniques, Validation, Histology Connectome Axon radius Deep learningRobust MRI-based axon radius estimation is sensitive to a tail-weighted estimate of the ensemble-average axon radius, i.e., the effective axon radius ($$$r_{eff}$$$). Existing validation studies of $$$r_{eff}$$$ in the human brain are confounded because the histological gold standard cannot representatively sample the tail of the axon radii distribution due to limited sample size. We compare in vivo, MRI-based $$$r_{eff}$$$ of five healthy adults against a representative histological gold standard of three donors in the human corpus callosum and demonstrate that spatial patterns of the $$$r_{eff}$$$ along the anterior-posterior axis agree between in vivo MRI and ex vivo histology.

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