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Abstract #4322

Characterization of white matter myelinated and unmyelinated axons from diffusion MRI perspective

Ali Abdollahzadeh1, Ricardo Coronado-Leija1, Subah Mehrin1, Hong-Hsi Lee2, Alejandra Sierra3, Els Fieremans1, and Dmitry S. Novikov1
1Radiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States, 2Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States, 3A.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland

Synopsis

Keywords: Diffusion/other diffusion imaging techniques, Simulations, Time-dependence diffusionWe segment all myelinated and unmyelinated axons from electron microscopy (EM) images of brain white matter (WM) of a mouse and a rat and quantify their cross-sectional morphology. We provide the exact relation between the long-time limit of the along-axon diffusion coefficients and the geometry of segmented intra-axonal spaces (IAS). By performing Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of diffusion in the IASs at varying diffusion times, we establish the time-dependence of diffusion along segmented myelinated and unmyelinated axons and validate the relation between axonal geometry and the long-time behavior of the longitudinal diffusion coefficient.

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