Diffusion MRI can be used to estimate the brain tissue neurite density from Multi-Compartment models. This index corresponds to the “stick” compartment volume fraction estimated in every voxel. In this work, we provide evidence that the distribution of stick volume fraction is characteristic of the brain tissue and is highly reproducible between subjects but strongly depends on the underlying multi-compartment model definition. In particular, in-vivo results on 10 subjects of the Human Connectome Project show that the neurite density distribution depends on both the stick parallel diffusivity and the extra-axonal compartment model.
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