Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications

This study characterizes white matter development in early childhood, showing increases in fractional anisotropy and decreases in mean diffusivity, with sex differences and significant changes in occipital and limbic connections.

This study derives histologically-derived fiber response functions for diffusion MRI in squirrel monkey brains and shows they vary across brain regions and subjects, affecting FOD reconstruction and tractography.

The paper integrates diffusion MR tractography with gene expression data to show increased cortico-cortical projections in primates compared to mice.

The paper identifies a new white matter tract, the superoanterior fasciculus, using diffusion MRI tractography and validates it across multiple cohorts and techniques.

The paper examines the relationship between white matter connectome efficiency, intelligence, and educational attainment in children, finding that distributed network properties are more predictive than voxel-wise analyses.

This study uses diffusion tensor MRI and CLARITY to show structural brain changes in Nrxn2 knockout mice, revealing altered connectivity in socially relevant regions.

The paper uses dMRI to study how Aβ and IL6 affect microstructure in TgCRND8 mice, finding increased neurite density and dispersion linked to reduced functional network organization.

This study compares tractography algorithms in MS patients to assess their ability to segment white matter tracts despite lesions, showing that individual tract segmentation is feasible and reliable.

The paper segments and quantifies axonal dispersion and diameter in mouse brain corpus callosum using electron microscopy and a semi-automatic algorithm, showing orientation metrics are time-independent while diameter depends on MRI settings.

The paper analyzes diffusion MRI data from ADNI3 to assess how different protocols affect diffusion indices and their association with cognitive impairment and age.

This study compares diffusion-based tractography and invasive tracer data to assess the accuracy of topological properties in macaque cortical connectomes.

This study investigates superficial white matter microstructure in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder using diffusion weighted imaging, finding altered fractional anisotropy in specific brain regions.

This study applies biophysical models to diffusion MRI data from children to assess white matter properties and their relationship with reading skill.

The paper investigates the causal relationship between white and gray matter damage in aging brains, finding that white matter damage causes gray matter decline, not the reverse.

This study uses diffusion tensor imaging to identify structural connectivity between visual cortex and superior parietal lobule in optic ataxia, correlating it with visual spatial recognition impairments.

This paper shows that perivascular space fluid affects diffusion tensor imaging metrics in white matter, challenging previous interpretations of DTI findings.

This study uses diffusion MRI tractography to map individual variations of the human corticospinal tract and hand-related motor fibers, creating a database of their volume, length, and biophysical parameters.

This paper introduces a Finsler geometry-based method for analyzing brain structural connectivity, showing improved accuracy compared to previous geodesic methods using HCP and autism data.

This study compares diffusion MRI tractography with histological tract-tracing in ferrets to assess the reliability of tractography algorithms in mapping cortico-cortical connectivity.

This paper uses diffusion MRI to detect and quantify crossing fiber abnormalities in the optic chiasm of individuals with albinism, showing improved detection with optimized streamline filtering methods.

The paper investigates white matter microstructure correlates of second-order psychopathology factors using twin data, finding associations with general and specific factors.

The paper evaluates MCMC algorithms for diffusion MRI microstructure models, finding that Adaptive Metropolis-Within-Gibbs with MLE initialization provides fast and robust sampling.

This paper presents GPU-accelerated frameworks for diffusion MRI applications, achieving significant speedups in microstructure estimation and tractography.

The paper investigates the role of the dorsal hippocampal commissure in episodic memory using MRI tractography and finds a correlation between its microstructure and memory performance.

The paper uses diffusion tensor imaging tractography to confirm structural connectivity between visual cortex and inferior temporal gyrus, linking it to visual object perception and agnosia.

This study confirms the structural connectivity of olfactory-saccadic pathways in healthy adults using diffusion imaging and identifies hemispheric differences between males and females.

The paper identifies age-related waves of cortical myelination and demyelination using micro-structural MRI markers in humans across the lifespan.

The paper develops tissue-specific brain age prediction models using diffusion tensor imaging and morphometry to assess cognitive aging patterns and their deviations from normal trajectories.

This paper introduces a new structural connectivity measure that better correlates with functional connectivity and improves Alzheimer's disease staging compared to streamline tractography.