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Test-retest reproducibility of in vivo oscillating gradient and microscopic anisotropy diffusion MRI in mice at 9.4 Tesla

View ORCID ProfileNaila Rahman, Kathy Xu, Mohammad Omer, Matthew D. Budde, Arthur Brown, Corey A. Baron
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.04.455122
Naila Rahman
1Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping (CFMM), Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
2Department of Medical Biophysics, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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  • For correspondence: nrahma25@uwo.ca
Kathy Xu
3Translational Neuroscience Group, Robarts Research Institute, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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Mohammad Omer
1Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping (CFMM), Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
2Department of Medical Biophysics, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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Matthew D. Budde
4Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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Arthur Brown
3Translational Neuroscience Group, Robarts Research Institute, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
5Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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Corey A. Baron
1Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping (CFMM), Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
2Department of Medical Biophysics, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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Background and Purpose Microstructure imaging with advanced diffusion MRI (dMRI) techniques have shown increased sensitivity and specificity to microstructural changes in various disease and injury models. Oscillating gradient spin echo (OGSE) dMRI, implemented by varying the oscillating gradient frequency, and microscopic anisotropy (µA) dMRI, implemented via tensor valued diffusion encoding, may provide additional insight by increasing sensitivity to smaller spatial scales and disentangling fiber orientation dispersion from true microstructural changes, respectively. The aims of this study were to characterize the test-retest reproducibility of in vivo OGSE and µA dMRI metrics in the mouse brain at 9.4 Tesla and provide estimates of required sample sizes for future investigations.

Methods Eight adult C57Bl/6 mice were scanned twice (5 days apart). Each imaging session consisted of multifrequency OGSE and µA dMRI protocols. Metrics investigated included µA, isotropic and anisotropic kurtosis, and the diffusion dispersion rate (Λ), which explores the power-law frequency dependence of mean diffusivity. The dMRI metric maps were analyzed with mean region-of-interest (ROI) and whole brain voxel-wise analysis. Bland-Altman plots and coefficients of variation (CV) were used to assess the reproducibility of OGSE and µA metrics. Furthermore, we estimated sample sizes required to detect a variety of effect sizes.

Results Bland-Altman plots showed negligible biases between test and retest sessions. ROI-based CVs revealed high reproducibility for both µA (CVs < 8 %) and Λ (CVs < 15 %). Voxel-wise CV maps revealed high reproducibility for µA (CVs ∼ 10 %), but low reproducibility for OGSE metrics (CVs ∼ 50 %).

Conclusion Most of the µA dMRI metrics are reproducible in both ROI-based and voxel-wise analysis, while the OGSE dMRI metrics are only reproducible in ROI-based analysis. µA and Λ may provide sensitivity to subtle microstructural changes (4 - 8 %) with feasible sample sizes (10 – 15).

Competing Interest Statement

The authors have declared no competing interest.

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Test-retest reproducibility of in vivo oscillating gradient and microscopic anisotropy diffusion MRI in mice at 9.4 Tesla
Naila Rahman, Kathy Xu, Mohammad Omer, Matthew D. Budde, Arthur Brown, Corey A. Baron
bioRxiv 2021.08.04.455122; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.04.455122
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Test-retest reproducibility of in vivo oscillating gradient and microscopic anisotropy diffusion MRI in mice at 9.4 Tesla
Naila Rahman, Kathy Xu, Mohammad Omer, Matthew D. Budde, Arthur Brown, Corey A. Baron
bioRxiv 2021.08.04.455122; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.04.455122

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