Efficient Axon Diameter Distribution Recovery with Long Diffusion Time
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PURPOSE: This work proposes an original method to recover axon diameter distributions (ADD) of white matter (WM) using nuclear magnetic resonance. The technique might be interpreted as an interesting simplification of the AxCaliber framework [1], which leads to a simpler model and an extremely faster acquisition protocol. To test and validate our method, we use the open-source toolkit CAMINO [2] for computing Monte-Carlo simulations of NMR signals. Promising experimental results illustrate the potential of the proposed method.
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