Benoit Scherrer1,
Maxime Taquet1, 2, Onur Afacan1, Simon K.
Warfield1
1Computational
Radiology Laboratory, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School,
Boston, MA, United States; 2ICTEAM Institute, Universit
catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Multiple works have shown that the diffusion attenuation in a voxel significantly deviates from a monoexponential decay. However, when imaging with a clinical scanner with long δ, it is not clear that the signal arising from a single fascicle is non-monoexponential. We hypothesize that the non-monoexponential behavior observed in voxels may reflect predominantly the presence of multiple fascicles with heterogeneous orientation and the presence of an additional compartment that is macroscopically isotropic. We imaged a region containing a single fascicle orientation, the body of the corpus and investigated the residual diffusion decay after subtracting the contribution of unrestricted diffusion.