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Test-retest reliability and long-term stability of 3-tissue constrained spherical deconvolution methods for analyzing diffusion MRI data

Newman, B. T.·Dhollander, T.·Reynier, K. A.·Panzer, M. B.·Druzgal, T. J.
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PurposeSeveral recent studies have utilized a 3-tissue constrained spherical deconvolution pipeline to obtain quantitative metrics of brain tissue microstructure from diffusion-weighted MRI data. The three tissue compartments, comprising white matter-, grey 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 has not yet been evaluated.\n\nMethodsThis study examined estimates of whole brain microstructure for the three tissue compartments, in three separate test-retest cohorts. Each cohort has different lengths of time between baseline and retest, ranging from within the same scanning session in the shortest interval to three months in the longest interval. Each cohort was also collected with different acquisition parameters.\n\nResultsThe 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 grey 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.\n\nConclusionThe 3-tissue CSD 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 utilizing 3-tissue CSD techniques to track changes in microstructure across a variety of brain pathologies.

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Newman, B. T., Dhollander, T., Reynier, K. A., Panzer, M. B., Druzgal, T. J.. 2019-09-10. Test-retest reliability and long-term stability of 3-tissue constrained spherical deconvolution methods for analyzing diffusion MRI data. https://doi.org/10.1101/764506

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