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Generalized anisotropy profiles distinguish cortical and subcortical structures in ex vivo diffusion MRI
Robert Jones1, Qiyuan Tian1, Chiara Maffei1, Jean Augustinack1, Aapo Nummenmaa1, Susie Huang1, and Anastasia Yendiki1
1Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, United States
The generalized anisotropy profile, defined as the standard deviation of the ensemble average propagator over all diffusion orientations at each displacement radius, shows differences between a variety of white- and grey-matter structures.
Figure 4. Generalized anisotropy profiles for WM bundles and subcortical GM structures in the representative slice.
Figure 1. Coronal view of the ex vivo sample (left), FA map (middle), and segmented WM and GM structures from one slice (right).