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Neuroimage ; 153: 152-167, 2017 06.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28365421

ABSTRACT

Advanced diffusion MRI methods have recently been proposed for detection of pathologies such as traumatic axonal injury and chronic traumatic encephalopathy which commonly affect complex cortical brain regions. However, radiological-pathological correlations in human brain tissue that detail the relationship between the multi-component diffusion signal and underlying pathology are lacking. We present a nonlinear voxel based two dimensional coregistration method that is useful for matching diffusion signals to quantitative metrics of high resolution histological images. When validated in ex vivo human cortical tissue at a 250×250×500 µm spatial resolution, the method proved robust in correlations between generalized q-sampling imaging and histologically based white matter fiber orientations, with r=0.94 for the primary fiber direction and r=0.88 for secondary fiber direction in each voxel. Importantly, however, the correlation was substantially worse with reduced spatial resolution or with fiber orientations derived using a diffusion tensor model. Furthermore, we have detailed a quantitative histological metric of white matter fiber integrity termed power coherence capable of distinguishing architecturally complex but intact white matter from disrupted white matter regions. These methods may allow for more sensitive and specific radiological-pathological correlations of neurodegenerative diseases affecting complex gray and white matter.


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Brain Mapping/methods , Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Frontal Lobe/anatomy & histology , White Matter/anatomy & histology , Animals , Axons , Brain/anatomy & histology , Brain/diagnostic imaging , Brain/pathology , Brain Injuries, Traumatic/diagnostic imaging , Brain Injuries, Traumatic/pathology , Diffusion Tensor Imaging , Humans , Image Processing, Computer-Assisted , Male , Mice
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