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White matter integrity, fiber count, and other fallacies: The do's and don'ts of diffusion MRI
Abstract
Diffusion-weighted MRI (DW-MRI) has been increasingly used in imaging neuroscience over the last decade. An early form of this technique, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) was rapidly implemented by major MRI scanner companies as a scanner selling point. Due to the ease of use of such implementations, and the plausibility of some of their results, DTI was leapt on by imaging neuroscientists who saw it as a powerful and unique new tool for exploring the structural connectivity of human brain. However, DTI is a rather approximate technique, and its results have frequently been given implausible interpretations that have escaped proper critique and have appeared misleadingly in journals of high reputation. In order to encourage the use of improved DW-MRI methods, which have a better chance of characterizing the actual fiber structure of white matter, and to warn against the misuse and misinterpretation of DTI, we review the physics of DW-MRI, indicate currently preferred methodology, and explain the limits of interpretation of its results. We conclude with a list of 'Do's and Don'ts' which define good practice in this expanding area of imaging neuroscience.
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“We caution that the behaviour of the DTI indices in the human brain, which is characterized by a high density of crossing fibre that influence DTI measures (Jeurissen et al., 2013), is only partially understood and remains speculative (Jones et al., 2013).”
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“DTI alterations may stem from a variety of tissue changes including altered crossing fibres, permeability of the axonal membrane, inflammation, or oedema (Jones et al., 2013).”
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“However, DTI metrics are not specific to particular cellular or molecular processes.”
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“This limitation is often expressed as the mantra “streamline count is not quantitative.””
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“However, because of the difference in resolution between the measured dMRI signal and actual axon dimensions (as described in Section 3.3: “Connection density biases”), many studies have emphasized that NOS does not provide a truly quantitative measure of connection strength (Jones, 2010; Jones et al., 2013; Sotiropoulos and Zalesky, 2019; Yeh et al., 2020).”
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“For example, many factors (e.g., cell death, edema, gliosis, inflammation, change in myelination, increase in connectivity of crossing fibers, increase in extracellular or intracellular water, etc.) may cause changes in FA (Assaf and Pasternak, 2008; Jones et al., 2013; Le Bihan and Johansen-Berg, 2012).”
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“However, these measures reflect a composite of axonal organization, myelin, extracellular water, fiber geometry, and cerebrovascular injury (Beck et al., 2021; Jones et al., 2013).”
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“This has led to considerable debate, since the inception of DTI, over the biological significance of these DTI-derived measures since WM integrity can be affected by many different parameters including axon packing density, axon caliber, myelination, microglia, inflammation, and tissue architecture (Mori and Zhang, 2006; Le Bihan and Johansen-Berg, 2012; Jones et al., 2013).”
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“higher values corresponding to higher diffusivity, which is often observed in damaged tissues (Jones et al., 2013)”
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“Changes in FA signal one or many microstructural alterations, such as Wallerian degeneration (Pierpaoli et al., 2001; Thomalla et al., 2004) or decreased neuronal membrane permeability (Jones, KnöSche, & Turner, 2013).”
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“Moreover, diffusion-weighted imaging has many limitations and sources of error at each step of the analysis pipeline that must be considered when interpreting results236, 237.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Jones, D. K., Knösche, T. R., & Turner, R.
- Affiliations
- Cardiff University (GB)
- Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Jones, Derek K.
- Venue
- NeuroImage
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013-06
- Volume
- 73
- Pages
- 239-254
- ISSN
- 1053-8119 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2117987496
- Semantic Scholar
- 18c1f13bf2af5a9efb0126b7bd4683fa1b786532
- Cited by
- 2,402
- References
- 200
- Citations by year
- 2026: 140 · 2025: 134 · 2024: 121 · 2023: 150 · 2022: 183 · 2021: 225 · 2020: 209 · 2019: 203 · 2018: 189 · 2017: 201 · 2016: 213 · 2015: 182 · 2014: 135 · 2013: 105
- FWCI
- 92.51
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- NeuroImage (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust (096646/Z/11/Z)
- 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
- diffusion-weighted imaging, diffusion tensor imaging, white matter integrity, fiber count, structural connectivity
- MeSH terms
- Brain, Brain Mapping, Cell Count, Data Interpretation, Statistical, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Nerve Fibers, Neural Pathways, Models, Statistical, Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Diffusion Tensor Imaging, Signal-To-Noise Ratio
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