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Fiber-orientation independent component of R2 obtained from single-orientation MRI measurements in simulations and a post-mortem human optic chiasm
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Journal Article
Fiber-orientation independent component of R2 obtained from single-orientation MRI measurements in simulations and a post-mortem human optic chiasm
2023
Overview
The effective transverse relaxation rate (R 2 *) is sensitive to the microstructure of the human brain like the g-ratio which characterises the relative myelination of axons. However, the fibre-orientation dependence of R 2 * degrades its reproducibility and any microstructural derivative measure. To estimate its orientation-independent part (R 2,iso *) from single multi-echo gradient-recalled-echo (meGRE) measurements at arbitrary orientations, a second-order polynomial in time model (hereafter M2) can be used. Its linear time-dependent parameter, β 1 , can be biophysically related to R 2,iso * when neglecting the myelin water (MW) signal in the hollow cylinder fibre model (HCFM). Here, we examined the performance of M2 using experimental and simulated data with variable g-ratio and fibre dispersion. We found that the fitted β 1 can estimate R 2,iso * using meGRE with long maximum-echo time (TE max ≈ 54 ms), but not accurately captures its microscopic dependence on the g-ratio (error 84%). We proposed a new heuristic expression for β 1 that reduced the error to 12% for ex vivo compartmental R 2 values. Using the new expression, we could estimate an MW fraction of 0.14 for fibres with negligible dispersion in a fixed human optic chiasm for the ex vivo compartmental R 2 values but not for the in vivo values. M2 and the HCFM-based simulations failed to explain the measured R 2 *-orientation-dependence around the magic angle for a typical in vivo meGRE protocol (with TE max ≈ 18 ms). In conclusion, further validation and the development of movement-robust in vivo meGRE protocols with TE max ≈ 54 ms are required before M2 can be used to estimate R 2,iso * in subjects.
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Frontiers Media S.A
