Rafael O'Halloran1, Rebecca Feldman1, Madeline Fields1, Laura Marcuse1, and Priti Balchandani1
A method for the quantification of cortical-to-cortical U-fiber fraction based on 7T MRI is presented and used to demonstrate group differences in the the U-fiber fractions in non-lesional and lesional epilepsy patients compared to healthy controls. Non-lesional epilepsy patients had the lowest u-fiber fractions followed by healthy control subjects, and then by lesional epilepsy subjects with the highest u-fiber fractions.