Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging towards clinical application in multiple sclerosis

C Granziera, J Wuerfel, F Barkhof, M Calabrese… - Brain, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Quantitative MRI provides biophysical measures of the microstructural integrity of the CNS,
which can be compared across CNS regions, patients, and centres. In patients with multiple …

Hypomyelinating leukodystrophies—Unravelling myelin biology

NI Wolf, C Ffrench-Constant… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Hypomyelinating leukodystrophies constitute a subset of genetic white matter disorders
characterized by a primary lack of myelin deposition. Most patients with severe …

MWF of the corpus callosum is a robust measure of remyelination: Results from the ReBUILD trial

E Caverzasi, N Papinutto, C Cordano… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Myelin repair is an unrealized therapeutic goal in the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS).
Uncertainty remains about the optimal techniques for assessing therapeutic efficacy and …

An atlas for human brain myelin content throughout the adult life span

AV Dvorak, T Swift-LaPointe, IM Vavasour, LE Lee… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Myelin water imaging is a quantitative neuroimaging technique that provides the myelin
water fraction (MWF), a metric highly specific to myelin content, and the intra-/extra-cellular …

Mapping myelin in white matter with T1-weighted/T2-weighted maps: discrepancy with histology and other myelin MRI measures

S Sandrone, M Aiello, C Cavaliere… - Brain Structure and …, 2023 - Springer
The ratio of T1-weighted/T2-weighted magnetic resonance images (T1w/T2w MRI) has been
successfully applied at the cortical level since 2011 and is now one of the most used myelin …

Quantitative myelin imaging with MRI and PET: an overview of techniques and their validation status

CWJ van der Weijden, E Biondetti, IW Gutmann… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Myelin is the protective sheath wrapped around axons, consisting of a phospholipid bilayer
with water between the wraps. The measurement of damage to the myelin sheaths, the …

[HTML][HTML] Depth-wise profiles of iron and myelin in the cortex and white matter using χ-separation: A preliminary study

S Lee, HG Shin, M Kim, J Lee - NeuroImage, 2023 - Elsevier
The in-vivo profiling of iron and myelin across cortical depths and underlying white matter
has important implications for advancing knowledge about their roles in brain development …

Myelin water imaging depends on white matter fiber orientation in the human brain

C Birkl, J Doucette, M Fan… - Magnetic resonance …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The multi‐exponential T2 decay of the MRI signal from cerebral white matter can be
separated into short T2 components related to myelin water and long T2 components related …

Toward nonparametric diffusion‐characterization of crossing fibers in the human brain

A Reymbaut, J Critchley, G Durighel… - Magnetic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To estimate for each distinct fiber population within voxels containing multiple brain
tissue types. Methods A diffusion‐correlation experiment was carried out in an in vivo human …

[HTML][HTML] Myelin water imaging data analysis in less than one minute

H Liu, QS Xiang, R Tam, AV Dvorak, AL MacKay… - NeuroImage, 2020 - Elsevier
Purpose Based on a deep learning neural network (NN) algorithm, a super fast and easy to
implement data analysis method was proposed for myelin water imaging (MWI) to calculate …