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Investigating the prevalence of complex fiber configurations in white matter tissue with diffusion magnetic resonance imaging
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It has long been recognized that the diffusion tensor model is inappropriate to characterize complex fiber architecture, causing tensor-derived measures such as the primary eigenvector and fractional anisotropy to be unreliable or misleading in these regions. There is however still debate about the impact of this problem in practice. A recent study using a Bayesian automatic relevance detection (ARD) multicompartment model suggested that a third of white matter (WM) voxels contain crossing fibers, a value that, whilst already significant, is likely to be an underestimate. The aim of this study is to provide more robust estimates of the proportion of affected voxels, the number of fiber orientations within each WM voxel, and the impact on tensor-derived analyses, using large, high-quality diffusion-weighted data sets, with reconstruction parameters optimized specifically for this task. Two reconstruction algorithms were used: constrained spherical deconvolution (CSD), and the ARD method used in the previous study. We estimate the proportion of WM voxels containing crossing fibers to be ~90% (using CSD) and 63% (using ARD). Both these values are much higher than previously reported, strongly suggesting that the diffusion tensor model is inadequate in the vast majority of WM regions. This has serious implications for downstream processing applications that depend on this model, particularly tractography, and the interpretation of anisotropy and radial/axial diffusivity measures.
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“as pointed out by Jeurissen et al. (2013), even regions with crossing fibers, many observed differences/changes in FA, AD and/or RD are likely to reflect actual anatomical and biophysical phenomena, as long as other pitfalls in the acquisition and analysis have been avoided (Jones and Cercignani, 2010).”
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“At standard spatial resolutions around a few mm, multiple fiber orientations affect the diffusivity patterns in up to 90% of white matter voxels in the human brain (Jeurissen et al. 2013).”
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“The TDF model addresses well-established limitations of the standard single-tensor diffusion model—which cannot resolve complex profiles of WM architecture such as crossing or mixing fibers, present in up to 90% of WM voxels (Tournier et al., 2004; Descoteaux et al., 2007, 2009; Jeurissen et al., 2013).”
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- Authors
- Jeurissen, B., Leemans, A., Tournier, J., Jones, D. K., & Sijbers, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Antwerp (BE)
- University Medical Center Utrecht (NL)
- Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health (AU)
- Cardiff University (GB)
- Venue
- Human Brain Mapping
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2012-05-19
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 2747-2766
- ISSN
- 1065-9471 (ISSN-L)
- 1097-0193
- PMC
- PMC6870534
- OpenAlex
- W2137679584
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- 1,088
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- 45.17
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- Funders
- Wellcome Trust (096646, 096646/Z/11/Z)
- State Government of Victoria
- National Health and Medical Research Council
- National Medical Research Council
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications
- Keywords
- crossing fibers, white matter microstructure, diffusion MRI, constrained spherical deconvolution, multi-compartment model, fiber orientation distribution, tractography, fractional anisotropy
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Algorithms, Brain, Brain Mapping, Data Interpretation, Statistical, False Positive Reactions, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Nerve Fibers, Reproducibility of Results, Anisotropy, Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials, Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Signal-To-Noise Ratio
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