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Abstract #4482

Diffusion filters, T2-filters, diffusion tensor component diffusivities, and compartmental diffusivities. What is happening in FEXI?

Hyeong-Geol Shin1,2, Xu Li1,2, Hye-Young Heo1, Linda Knutsson1,2,3, Filip Szczepankiewicz3, Markus Nilsson4, and Peter van Zijl1,2
1Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States, 2F.M. Kirby Research Center for Functional Brain Imaging, Kennedy Krieger Research Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States, 3Department of Medical Radiation Physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, 4Deparment of Radiology, Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Synopsis

Keywords: Diffusion/other diffusion imaging techniques, Diffusion/other diffusion imaging techniques, FEXI, trans-membrane exchangeWe explored how compartmental anisotropy affects filter-exchange imaging (FEXI) data in white matter by applying different types of tissue water magnetization filters, including multi-orientation and spherical tensor encoded diffusion filters, as well as a T2 filter. The results show that, depending on the mutual orientation of the filter and detection gradient pairs relative to fiber orientation, filtering efficiencies can be positive or negative. We conclude that the fast compartment reduced during diffusional filtering need not be extracellular, but can also reflect intra-axonal signal losses with effect size determined by the diffusion tensor components perpendicular and parallel to the fibers.

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