Benjamin T Newman1,2, Thijs Dhollander3, Kristen A Reynier4, Matthew B Panzer4, T Jason Druzgal1,2. 1. Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. 2. Brain Institute, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. 3. Developmental Imaging, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 4. Center for Applied Biomechanics, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.
Abstract
PURPOSE: Several recent studies have used a three-tissue constrained spherical deconvolution pipeline to obtain quantitative metrics of brain tissue microstructure from diffusion-weighted MRI data. The three tissue compartments, consisting of white matter, gray matter, and CSF-like (free water) signals, are potentially useful in the evaluation of brain microstructure in a range of pathologies. However, the reliability and long-term stability of these metrics have not yet been evaluated. METHODS: This study examined estimates of whole-brain microstructure for the three tissue compartments, in three separate test-retest cohorts. Each cohort had different lengths of time between baseline and retest, ranging from within the same scanning session in the shortest interval to 3 months in the longest interval. Each cohort was also collected with different acquisition parameters. RESULTS: The CSF-like compartment displayed the greatest reliability across all cohorts, with intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) values being above 0.95 in each cohort. White matter-like and gray matter-like compartments both demonstrated very high reliability in the immediate cohort (both ICC > 0.90); however, this declined in the 3-month interval cohort to both compartments having ICC > 0.80. Regional CSF-like signal fraction was examined in bilateral hippocampus and had an ICC > 0.80 in each cohort. CONCLUSION: The three-tissue constrained spherical deconvolution techniques provide reliable and stable estimates of tissue-microstructure composition, up to 3 months longitudinally in a control population. This forms an important basis for further investigations using three-tissue constrained spherical deconvolution techniques to track changes in microstructure across a variety of brain pathologies.
PURPOSE: Several recent studies have used a three-tissue constrained spherical deconvolution pipeline to obtain quantitative metrics of brain tissue microstructure from diffusion-weighted MRI data. The three tissue compartments, consisting of white matter, gray matter, and CSF-like (free water) signals, are potentially useful in the evaluation of brain microstructure in a range of pathologies. However, the reliability and long-term stability of these metrics have not yet been evaluated. METHODS: This study examined estimates of whole-brain microstructure for the three tissue compartments, in three separate test-retest cohorts. Each cohort had different lengths of time between baseline and retest, ranging from within the same scanning session in the shortest interval to 3 months in the longest interval. Each cohort was also collected with different acquisition parameters. RESULTS: The CSF-like compartment displayed the greatest reliability across all cohorts, with intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) values being above 0.95 in each cohort. White matter-like and gray matter-like compartments both demonstrated very high reliability in the immediate cohort (both ICC > 0.90); however, this declined in the 3-month interval cohort to both compartments having ICC > 0.80. Regional CSF-like signal fraction was examined in bilateral hippocampus and had an ICC > 0.80 in each cohort. CONCLUSION: The three-tissue constrained spherical deconvolution techniques provide reliable and stable estimates of tissue-microstructure composition, up to 3 months longitudinally in a control population. This forms an important basis for further investigations using three-tissue constrained spherical deconvolution techniques to track changes in microstructure across a variety of brain pathologies.
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