Ex-vivo dMRI acquisitions achieve very high resolutions from increased SNR at the cost of prolonged scan times. Due to highly-segmented acquisition strategies, the ex-vivo dMRI signal is often not fully decayed when signal encoding progresses. Using numerical simulations and real-dMRI data from a wild chimpanzee, we show that this circumstance can be effectively employed using an optimized noise informed combination of multi-echo acquisitions from segmented EPI trains. The additional sampling comes at a small price and leads to increased SNR and a general reduction of signal bias.
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