Publications by authors named "Renaud Hedouin"

Late-life depression (LLD) is both common and disabling and doubles the risk of dementia onset. Apathy might constitute an additional risk of cognitive decline but clear understanding of its pathophysiology is lacking. While white matter (WM) alterations have been assessed using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), this model cannot accurately represent WM microstructure.

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  • A study explored the links between motor activity patterns, apathy, and brain connectivity in older adults with late-life depression to improve predictions for conditions like dementia.
  • Using actimetry, resting-state fMRI, and diffusion MRI, researchers assessed 38 participants and identified two key activity patterns related to apathy: mean diurnal activity and early chronotype.
  • The study found that both patterns were associated with notable brain network connectivity but did not establish a significant connection with microstructural brain metrics.
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Purpose: Ex vivo imaging is a commonly used approach to investigate the biophysical mechanism of orientation-dependent signal phase evolution in white matter. Yet, how phase measurements are influenced by the structural alteration in the tissue after formalin fixation is not fully understood. Here, we study the effects on magnetic susceptibility, microstructural compartmentalization, and chemical exchange measurement with a postmortem formalin-fixed whole-brain human tissue.

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Multi-echo gradient echo (ME-GRE) magnetic resonance signal evolution in white matter has a strong dependence on the orientation of myelinated axons with respect to the main static field. Although analytical solutions have been able to predict some of the white matter (WM) signal behaviour of the hollow cylinder model, it has been shown that realistic models of WM offer a better description of the signal behaviour observed. In this work, we present a pipeline to (i) generate realistic 2D WM models with their microstructure based on real axon morphology with adjustable fiber volume fraction (FVF) and g-ratio.

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Purpose: To create a realistic in silico head phantom for the second QSM reconstruction challenge and for future evaluations of processing algorithms for QSM.

Methods: We created a digital whole-head tissue property phantom by segmenting and postprocessing high-resolution (0.64 mm isotropic), multiparametric MRI data acquired at 7 T from a healthy volunteer.

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Multi-compartment models (MCM) are increasingly used to characterize the brain white matter microstructure from diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI). Their use in clinical studies is however limited by the inability to resample an MCM image towards a common reference frame, or to construct atlases from such brain microstructure models. We propose to solve this problem by first identifying that these two tasks amount to the same problem.

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