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Abstract #0589

Towards a Standard Model of Diffusion in White Matter with Phase and Relaxation – A Monte-Carlo Study

Anders Dyhr Sandgaard1, Valerij G. Kiselev2, Noam Shemesh3, and Sune Nørhøj Jespersen1,4
1Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 2Division of Medical Physics, Department of Radiology, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, 3Champalimaud Research,Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal, 4Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Synopsis

Keywords: Microstructure, Microstructure

Motivation: Improving parameter estimation for the standard model of diffusion in white matter (SM) by modelling the subsequent decay of the spin-echo of the dMRI signal.

Goal(s): To numerically validate SMPR - an extension of SM incorporating orientation-dependent, susceptibility related relaxation rates and Larmor frequency shifts of the spin echo decay of the dMRI signal.

Approach: To perform Monte-Carlo (MC) simulations in orientationally dispersed, non-exchanging bundles of hollow magnetized cylinders, simulate a standard PGSE signal and its spin echo decay, and compare against the SMPR model.

Results: SMPR is in agreement with the MC simulations in both phase and signal magnitude.

Impact: Orientation-dependent susceptibility effects may improve parameter estimation of the Standard Model of diffusion in white matter and enable rotation-free mapping of susceptibility-related parameters.

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