Magnetic resonance elastography in the study of neurodegenerative diseases

Y Feng, MC Murphy, E Hojo, F Li… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease
(PD) present a major health burden to society. Changes in brain structure and cognition are …

The contributions of relative brain viscosity to brain function and health

G McIlvain - Brain Communications, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Magnetic resonance elastography has emerged over the last two decades as a non-invasive
method for quantitatively measuring the mechanical properties of the brain. Since the …

[HTML][HTML] Brain Mechanical Properties Predict Longitudinal Cognitive Change in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease

D Pavuluri, J Huston III, RL Ehman, A Manduca… - Neurobiology of …, 2025 - Elsevier
Age-related cognitive decline is a complex phenomenon that is influenced by various
neurobiological processes at the molecular, cellular, and tissue levels. The extent of this …

Viscoelastic polyacrylamide MR elastography phantoms with tunable damping ratio independent of shear stiffness

LT Williams, Z Cao, AH Lateef, MDJ McGarry… - Journal of the …, 2024 - Elsevier
Physiologically modeled test samples with known properties and characteristics, or
phantoms, are essential for developing sensitive, repeatable, and accurate quantitative MRI …

Influence of mild cognitive impairment and body mass index on white matter integrity assessed by diffusion tensor imaging

EM Tinney, P Loui, LB Raine, LV Hiscox… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a prodromal stage of Alzheimer's disease, is characterized
by decreased memory and cognition, which are linked to degenerative changes in the brain …

Contrastive learning with adaptive neighborhoods for brain age prediction on 3D stiffness maps

J Träuble, L Hiscox, C Johnson, CB Schönlieb… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In the field of neuroimaging, accurate brain age prediction is pivotal for uncovering the
complexities of brain aging and pinpointing early indicators of neurodegenerative …

MRI-based Whole-Brain Elastography and Volumetric Measurements to Predict Brain Age

CC Claros-Olivares, RG Clements… - Biology Methods and …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Brain age, as a correlate of an individual's chronological age obtained from structural and
functional neuroimaging data, enables assessing developmental or neurodegenerative …

Mechanical Property Based Brain Age Prediction using Convolutional Neural Networks

RG Clements, CC Claros-Olivares, G McIlvain… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Brain age is a quantitative estimate to explain an individual's structural and functional brain
measurements relative to the overall population and is particularly valuable in describing …

Mechanical Properties of White Matter Tracts in Aging Assessed via Anisotropic MR Elastography

DA Caban-Rivera, LT Williams, MDJ McGarry… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is a promising neuroimaging technique to probe
tissue microstructure, which has revealed widespread softening with loss of structural …

Adaptive neighborhoods in contrastive regression learning for brain age prediction

J Träuble, LV Hiscox, CL Johnson, CB Schönlieb… - 2024 - orca.cardiff.ac.uk
In neuroimaging, accurate brain age prediction is key to understanding brain aging and
early neurodegenerative signs. Recent advancements in self-supervised learning …