Purpose: The goal of this study is to validate the muscle architecture derived from both ex
vivo and in vivo diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) of the human …

Dear Editor-in-Chief, This letter aims at: a) discussing about the anatomy and physiology of
the tongue, taking into consideration what the literature reports about the specificity of …

Essa carta tem o objetivo de: a) explanar sobre a anatomofisiologia da língua, levantando
algumas considerações sobre o que a literatura tem mostrado a respeito da especificidade …

Advanced dMRI techniques have been used to resolve the complex tongue muscle
architecture. However, dMRI-derived tongue muscle architecture has not been validated …

In this study provides validation procedure for DSI anisotropy measures versus the
histological analysis of the aligned tongue muscles. A fresh ex-vivo sample of the tongue is …