Cape Town - 2026 ISMRM-ISMRT Annual Meeting and Exhibition
9 May 2026 – 14 May 2026 · Cape Town, South Africa
306-02-008 ISMRM Abstract

Axon- and glia-specific fiber orientation distributions in human white matter probed with diffusion MR spectroscopy

Primary: Contrast Mechanisms - Spectroscopy
Secondary: Diffusion - Diffusion Modeling
306-02-008 · From Theory to Clinic: Advances in Diffusion MRI Modeling and Analysis · Monday, 11 May, 1:50 PM–3:40 PM · Auditorium 2
Keywords: Diffusion-weighted MRI Diffusion-weighted MRS Fiber orientation White matter microstructure Metabolite diffusion
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Jessie Mosso 1,2, Santiago Coelho1,2, Ricardo Coronado-Leija1,2, Valentin Stepanov1,2, Andrè Döring3, Roland Kreis4,5, Dmitry S Novikov1,2, Els Fieremans1,2
1Bernard and Irene Schwartz Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, United States of America
2Center for Advanced Imaging Innovation and Research (CAI2R), Department of Radiology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, United States of America
3CIBM Center for Biomedical Imaging, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
4Translational Imaging Center (TIC), Sitem-Insel, Bern, Switzerland
5Magnetic Resonance Methodology, Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, Inselspital, University of Bern, Switzerland
Presenting Author: Jessie Mosso

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