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Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) has had a great impact on the study of the human brain connectome. Tractography methods allow for the reconstruction of white matter fiber tracts and bundles across the brain, by tracing the estimated direction of water diffusion across neighboring voxels. The tracts can then be used in conjunction with cortical parcellations to create structural connectivity matrices, to map the pattern and distribution of connections between cortical regions. However, the reliability of connectivity matrices is unclear. Tractography results depend on image resolution, and some reconstruction methods used to resolve the voxel-wise microstructure may be more robust to changes in resolution than others, leading to more stable connectivity estimates. We examined the reliability of structural connectivity matrices in 20 healthy young adults imaged with both high and low-resolution dMRI at two time points. We found that the Constrained Spherical Deconvolution (CSD) model produces the most reliable connections for both lower resolution and high resolution scans.
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Villalon-Reina, J.E. et al. (2016). Reliability of Structural Connectivity Examined with Four Different Diffusion Reconstruction Methods at Two Different Spatial and Angular Resolutions. In: Fuster, A., Ghosh, A., Kaden, E., Rathi, Y., Reisert, M. (eds) Computational Diffusion MRI. Mathematics and Visualization. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28588-7_19
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