Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-1-2021
Journal
Magnetic resonance imaging
Volume
80
First Page
132
Last Page
143
URL with Digital Object Identifier
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mri.2021.04.015
Abstract
Water diffusion anisotropy in the human brain is affected by disease, trauma, and development. Microscopic fractional anisotropy (μFA) is a diffusion MRI (dMRI) metric that can quantify water diffusion anisotropy independent of neuron fiber orientation dispersion. However, there are several different techniques to estimate μFA and few have demonstrated full brain imaging capabilities within clinically viable scan times and resolutions. Here, we present an optimized spherical tensor encoding (STE) technique to acquire μFA directly from the 2nd order cumulant expansion of the powder averaged dMRI signal obtained from direct linear regression (i.e. diffusion kurtosis) which requires fewer powder-averaged signals than other STE fitting techniques and can be rapidly computed. We found that the optimal dMRI parameters for white matter μFA imaging were a maximum b-value of 2000 s/mm
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