| Autor: |
Renat Sibgatulin, Daniel Güllmar, Andreas Deistung, Stefan Ropele, Jürgen R. Reichenbach |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2021 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
NeuroImage, Vol 241, Iss , Pp 118442- (2021) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
1095-9572 |
| DOI: |
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118442 |
| Popis: |
Multiple studies have reported a significant dependence of the effective transverse relaxation rate constant (R2*) and the phase of gradient-echo based (GRE) signal on the orientation of white matter fibres in the human brain. It has also been hypothesized that magnetic susceptibility, as obtained by single-orientation quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM), exhibits such a dependence. In this study, we investigated this hypothesized relationship in a cohort of healthy volunteers. We show that R2* follows the predicted orientation dependence consistently across white matter regions, whereas the apparent magnetic susceptibility is related differently to fibre orientation across the brain and often in a complex non-monotonic manner. In addition, we explored the effect of fractional anisotropy measured by diffusion-weighted MRI on the strength of the orientation dependence and observed only a limited influence in many regions. However, with careful consideration of such an impact and the limitations imposed by the ill-posed nature of the dipole inversion process, it is possible to study magnetic susceptibility anisotropy in specific brain regions with a single orientation acquisition. |
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