Diffusion MRI could play an important role for detection and characterisation of lymph nodes, however, the standard ADC metric lacks specificity and cannot accurately capture the signal decay. Multi-compartment models aim to represent the signal contribution of different water pools in order to better explain the acquired data. In this study, a rich dMRI dataset is acquired for ex-vivo lymph nodes and various diffusion models are fitted. The results show that including compartments which feature restricted diffusion improves the signal fit. Although such models have only a slight impact on lymph node differentiation, they could potentially provide more specific biomarkers.
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