Noam Shemesh1,
Daniel Barzany2, Ofer Sadan3, Yuval Zur4, Daniel
Offen5, Yaniv Assaf2, Yoram Cohen1
1School of
Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; 2Department of
Neurobiology, Tel Aviv University, Israel; 3Department of
Neurology, Tel-Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel; 4GE
Healthcare, Israel; 5Laboratory of Neurosciences, Felsenstein
Medical Research Center, Department of Neurology, Rabin Medical Center &
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Double-Pulsed-Field-Gradient (d-PFG) MR is emerging as a useful methodology for depicting underlying microstructural information in scenarios where conventional single-PFG (s-PFG) are very limited, such as when anisotropic compartments are randomly oriented. Here, we used d-PFG MRI on phantoms, pig spinal cord and rat brain. The angular variations in the E() data could be easily observed for all specimens even in the raw data; furthermore, the presence of modulated E() plots in grey matter tissues revealed that water is diffusing in randomly oriented anisotropic compartments having different eccentricities, which appeared as different patterns within the cortex of the rat brain.