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December, 2022

Anomalous and heterogeneous characteristics of the BOLD hemodynamic response function in white matter

Dec. 13, 2022—Kurt G Schilling, Muwei Li, Francois Rheault, Zhaohua Ding, Adam W Anderson, Hakmook Kang, Bennett A Landman, John C Gore. “Anomalous and heterogeneous characteristics of the BOLD hemodynamic response function in white matter”. Cerebral Cortex Communications 3 (3), tgac035 (2022). Full Text Abstract Detailed knowledge of the BOLD hemodynamic response function (HRF) is crucial for accurate...

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Minimal number of sampling directions for robust measures of the spherical mean diffusion weighted signal: effects of sampling directions, b-value, signal-to-noise ratio, hardware, and fitting strategy

Dec. 13, 2022—Kurt G Schilling, Marco Palombo, Kristin P. O’Grady, Anna J.E. Combes, Adam W Anderson, Bennett A Landman, Seth A Smith. “Minimal number of sampling directions for robust measures of the spherical mean diffusion weighted signal: effects of sampling directions, b-value, signal-to-noise ratio, hardware, and fitting strategy”. Magnetic Resonance Imaging 94, 25-35 (2022). Full Text Abstract...

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Aging and white matter microstructure and macrostructure: a longitudinal multi-site diffusion MRI study of 1218 participants

Dec. 13, 2022—Kurt G Schilling, Derek Archer, Fang-Cheng Yeh, Francois Rheault, Leon Cai, Colin Hansen, Qi Yang, Karthik Ramdass, Andrea Shafer, Susan Resnick, Kimberly R. Pechman, Katherine A. Gifford, Timothy J. Hohman, Angela Jefferson, Adam W Anderson, Hakmook Kang, Bennett A Landman. “Aging and white matter microstructure and macrostructure: a longitudinal multi-site diffusion MRI study of 1218 participants.” Brain...

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Prevalence of white matter pathways coming into a single diffusion MRI voxel orientation: the bottleneck issue in tractography

Dec. 13, 2022—Kurt G. Schilling, Chantal M.W. Tax, Francois Rheault, Bennett Landman, Adam Anderson, Maxime Descoteaux*, Laurent Petit*. “Prevalence of white matter pathways coming into a single diffusion MRI voxel orientation: the bottleneck issue in tractography”. Human Brain Mapping 43(4), 1196-1213. (2022) Full Text Abstract Characterizing and understanding the limitations of diffusion MRI fiber tractography is a...

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Tractography dissection variability: what happens when 42 groups dissect 14 white matter bundles on the same dataset?

Dec. 13, 2022—Kurt G Schilling, Francois Rheault, Laurent Petit, Colin B Hansen, Vishwesh Nath, Fang-Cheng Yeh, Gabriel Girard, Muhamed Barakovic, Jonathan Rafael-Patino, Thomas Yu, Elda Fischi-Gomez, Marco Pizzolato, Riccardo Galbusera, Mario Ocampo-Pineda, Simona Schiavi, Erick J Canales-Rodriguez, Alessandro Daducci, Cristina Granziera, Giorgio Innocenti, Jean-Philippe Thiran, Laura Mancini, Stephen Wastling, Sirio Cocozza, Maria Petracca, Giuseppe Pontillo, Matteo Mancini,...

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Fiber tractography bundle segmentation depends on scanner effects, acquisition, diffusion sensitization, and bundle segmentation workflow

Dec. 13, 2022—Kurt G Schilling, Chantal MW Tax, Francois Rheault, Colin B Hansen, Qi Yang, Fang-Cheng Yeh, Leon Y Cai, Adam W Anderson, Bennett A Landman “Fiber tractography bundle segmentation depends on scanner effects, acquisition, diffusion sensitization, and bundle segmentation workflow”. NeuroImage. 242, 118451 (2021). Full Text Abstract When investigating connectivity and microstructure of white matter pathways...

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On the generalizability of diffusion MRI signal representations across acquisition parameters, sequences and tissue types: chronicles of the MEMENTO challenge

Dec. 13, 2022—Alberto De Luca, Andrada Ianus, Alexander Leemans, Marco Palombo, Noam Shemesh, Hui Zhang, Daniel C Alexander, Markus Nilsson, Martijn Froeling, Geert-Jan Biessels, Mauro Zucchelli, Matteo Frigo, Enes Albay, Sara Sedlar, Abib Alimi, Samuel Deslauriers-Gauthier, Rachid Deriche, Rutger Fick, Maryam Afzali, Tomasz Pieciak, Fabian Bogusz, Santiago Aja-Fernandez, Evren Ozarslan, Derek K Jones, Haoze Chan, Mingwu Jin,...

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Pandora: 4-D white matter bundle population-based atlases derived from diffusion MRI fiber tractography

Dec. 13, 2022—Colin B Hansen*, Qi Yang*, Ilwoo Lyu, Francois Rheault, Cailey Kerley, Bramsh Qamar Chandio,Shreyas Fadnavis, Owen Williams, Andrea T. Shafer, Susan M. Resnick, David H. Zald, Laurie Cutting, Warren D Taylor, Brian Boyd, Eleftherios Garyfallidis, Adam W Anderson, Maxime Descoteaux, Bennett A Landman, Kurt G Schilling. “Pandora: 4-D white matter bundle population-based atlases derived from...

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Deep whole brain segmentation of 7T structural MRI

Dec. 4, 2022—Karthik Ramadass, Xin Yu, Leon Y. Cai, Yucheng Tang, Shunxing Bao, Cailey Kerley, Micah D’Archangel, Laura A Barquero, Allen T. Newton, Isabel Gauthier, Rankin Williams McGugin, Benoit M.  Dawant, Laurie E. Cutting, Yuankai Huo, Bennett A. Landman SPIE Medical Imaging 2023 Abstract 7T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has the potential to drive our understanding of...

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Mapping the Impact of Approximate Gradient Nonlinearity Fields Correction on Tractography

Dec. 3, 2022—Praitayini Kanakaraj, Francois Rheault, Leon Y. Cai, Nancy Newlin, Baxter P. Rogers, Kurt G. Schilling, Bennett A. Landman. “Mapping the Impact of Approximate Gradient Nonlinearity Fields Correction on Tractography” SPIE Medical Imaging : Image Processing 2023. Accepted. Abstract Nonlinear gradients impact diffusion weighted MRI by introducing spatial variation in estimated diffusion tensors. Recent studies have...

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