White matter pathways in reading

M Ben-Shachar, RF Dougherty, BA Wandell - Current opinion in …, 2007 - Elsevier
Skilled reading requires mapping of visual text to sound and meaning. Because reading
relies on neural systems spread across the brain, a full understanding of this cognitive ability …

Mapping brain anatomical connectivity using white matter tractography

M Lazar - NMR in Biomedicine, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Integration of the neural processes in the human brain is realized through interconnections
that exist between different neural centers. These interconnections take place through white …

White matter integrity, fiber count, and other fallacies: the do's and don'ts of diffusion MRI

DK Jones, TR Knösche, R Turner - Neuroimage, 2013 - Elsevier
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 …

The B‐matrix must be rotated when correcting for subject motion in DTI data

A Leemans, DK Jones - … in Medicine: An Official Journal of the …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
To estimate diffusion tensor MRI (DTI) measures, such as fractional anisotropy and fiber
orientation, reliably, a large number of diffusion‐encoded images is needed, preferably …

About “axial” and “radial” diffusivities

CAM Wheeler‐Kingshott… - Magnetic Resonance in …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents the potential problems arising from the use of “axial” and “radial”
diffusivities, derived from the eigenvalues of the diffusion tensor, and their interpretation in …

Improving diffusion MRI using simultaneous multi-slice echo planar imaging

K Setsompop, J Cohen-Adad, BA Gagoski, T Raij… - Neuroimage, 2012 - Elsevier
In diffusion MRI, simultaneous multi-slice single-shot EPI acquisitions have the potential to
increase the number of diffusion directions obtained per unit time, allowing more diffusion …

“Squashing peanuts and smashing pumpkins”: how noise distorts diffusion‐weighted MR data

DK Jones, PJ Basser - … in Medicine: An Official Journal of the …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
New diffusion‐weighted imaging (DWI) methods, including high‐b, q‐space, and high
angular resolution MRI methods, attempt to extract information about non‐Gaussian …

Probabilistic fiber tracking using the residual bootstrap with constrained spherical deconvolution

B Jeurissen, A Leemans, DK Jones… - Human brain …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Constrained spherical deconvolution (CSD) is a new technique that, based on high‐angular
resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) MR data, estimates the orientation of multiple …

The effect of filter size on VBM analyses of DT-MRI data

DK Jones, MR Symms, M Cercignani, RJ Howard - Neuroimage, 2005 - Elsevier
Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) has been used to analyze diffusion tensor MRI (DT-MRI)
data in a number of studies. In VBM, following spatial normalization, data are smoothed to …

Riemannian geometry for the statistical analysis of diffusion tensor data

PT Fletcher, S Joshi - Signal Processing, 2007 - Elsevier
The tensors produced by diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DT-MRI) represent
the covariance in a Brownian motion model of water diffusion. Under this physical …