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A multi-shell multi-tissue diffusion study of brain connectivity in early multiple sclerosis

Tur, C; Grussu, F; Prados Carrasco, F; Charalambous, T; Collorone, S; Kanber, B; Cawley, N; ... Ciccarelli, O; + view all (2019) A multi-shell multi-tissue diffusion study of brain connectivity in early multiple sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis Journal 10.1177/1352458519845105. (In press). Green open access

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Background: The potential of multi-shell diffusion imaging to produce accurate brain connectivity metrics able to unravel key pathophysiological processes in multiple sclerosis (MS) has scarcely been investigated. / Objective: To test, in patients with a clinically isolated syndrome (CIS), whether multi-shell imaging-derived connectivity metrics can differentiate patients from controls, correlate with clinical measures, and perform better than metrics obtained with conventional single-shell protocols. / Methods: Nineteen patients within 3 months from the CIS and 12 healthy controls underwent anatomical and 53-direction multi-shell diffusion-weighted 3T images. Patients were cognitively assessed. Voxel-wise fibre orientation distribution functions were estimated and used to obtain network metrics. These were also calculated using a conventional single-shell diffusion protocol. Through linear regression, we obtained effect sizes and standardised regression coefficients. / Results: Patients had lower mean nodal strength (p = 0.003) and greater network modularity than controls (p = 0.045). Greater modularity was associated with worse cognitive performance in patients, even after accounting for lesion load (p = 0.002). Multi-shell-derived metrics outperformed single-shell-derived ones. / Conclusion: Connectivity-based nodal strength and network modularity are abnormal in the CIS. Furthermore, the increased network modularity observed in patients, indicating microstructural damage, is clinically relevant. Connectivity analyses based on multi-shell imaging can detect potentially relevant network changes in early MS.

Type: Article
Title: A multi-shell multi-tissue diffusion study of brain connectivity in early multiple sclerosis
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1177/1352458519845105
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1177/1352458519845105
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Diffusion-weighted imaging, multi-shell acquisitions, multi-shell multi-tissue constrained spherical deconvolution, tractography, multiple sclerosis, clinically isolated syndrome
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10071469
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