Psyllium reduces insulin-induced colonic gas production in irritable bowel syndrome: MRI and in vitro fermentation studies (2021)
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Gunn, D., Abbas, Z., Harris, H., Major, G., Hoad, C., Gowland, P., …Spiller, R. (2022). Psyllium reduces insulin-induced colonic gas production in irritable bowel syndrome: MRI and in vitro fermentation studies. Gut, 71(5), 919-927. https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2021-324784

Objective: Health promoting dietary fibre including inulin often triggers gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), limiting their intake. Our aim was to test if co-administering psyllium with inulin would reduce gas... Read More about Psyllium reduces insulin-induced colonic gas production in irritable bowel syndrome: MRI and in vitro fermentation studies.

A data-driven approach to optimising the encoding for multi-shell diffusion MRI with application to neonatal imaging (2020)
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Tournier, J.-D., Christiaens, D., Hutter, J., Price, A. N., Cordero-Grande, L., Hughes, E., …Hajnal, J. V. (2020). A data-driven approach to optimising the encoding for multi-shell diffusion MRI with application to neonatal imaging. NMR in Biomedicine, 33(9), Article e4348. https://doi.org/10.1101/661348

Diffusion MRI has the potential to provide important information about the connectivity and microstructure of the human brain during normal and abnormal development, non-invasively and in vivo. Recent developments in MRI hardware and reconstruction m... Read More about A data-driven approach to optimising the encoding for multi-shell diffusion MRI with application to neonatal imaging.

Improved fibre dispersion estimation using b-tensor encoding (2020)
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Cottaar, M., Szczepankiewicz, F., Bastiani, M., Hernandez-Fernandez, M., Sotiropoulos, S. N., Nilsson, M., & Jbabdi, S. (2020). Improved fibre dispersion estimation using b-tensor encoding. NeuroImage, 215, Article 116832. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116832

© 2020 The Authors Measuring fibre dispersion in white matter with diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is limited by an inherent degeneracy between fibre dispersion and microscopic diffusion anisotropy (i.e., the diffusion anisotropy expected... Read More about Improved fibre dispersion estimation using b-tensor encoding.

Towards HCP-Style macaque connectomes: 24-Channel 3T multi-array coil, MRI sequences and preprocessing (2020)
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Autio, J. A., Glasser, M. F., Ose, T., Donahue, C. J., Bastiani, M., Ohno, M., …Hayashi, T. (2020). Towards HCP-Style macaque connectomes: 24-Channel 3T multi-array coil, MRI sequences and preprocessing. NeuroImage, 215, Article 116800. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116800

© 2020 The Author(s) Macaque monkeys are an important animal model where invasive investigations can lead to a better understanding of the cortical organization of primates including humans. However, the tools and methods for noninvasive image acquis... Read More about Towards HCP-Style macaque connectomes: 24-Channel 3T multi-array coil, MRI sequences and preprocessing.

Joint modelling of diffusion MRI and microscopy (2019)
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Howard, A. F., Mollink, J., Kleinnijenhuis, M., Pallebage-Gamarallage, M., Bastiani, M., Cottaar, M., …Jbabdi, S. (2019). Joint modelling of diffusion MRI and microscopy. NeuroImage, 201, Article 116014. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116014

The combination of diffusion MRI (dMRI) with microscopy provides unique opportunities to study microstructural features of tissue, particularly when acquired in the same sample. Microscopy is frequently used to validate dMRI microstructure models, ad... Read More about Joint modelling of diffusion MRI and microscopy.

How do spatially distinct frequency specific MEG networks emerge from one underlying structural connectome? The role of the structural eigenmodes (2018)
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Tewarie, P., Abeysuriya, R., Byrne, Á., O'Neill, G. C., Sotiropoulos, S. N., Brookes, M. J., & Coombes, S. (2019). How do spatially distinct frequency specific MEG networks emerge from one underlying structural connectome? The role of the structural eigenmodes. NeuroImage, 186, 211-220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.10.079

Functional networks obtained from magnetoencephalography (MEG) from different frequency bands show distinct spatial patterns. It remains to be elucidated how distinct spatial patterns in MEG networks emerge given a single underlying structural networ... Read More about How do spatially distinct frequency specific MEG networks emerge from one underlying structural connectome? The role of the structural eigenmodes.

Automated quality control for within and between studies diffusion MRI data using a non-parametric framework for movement and distortion correction (2018)
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Bastiani, M., Cottaar, M., Fitzgibbon, S. P., Suri, S., Alfaro-Almagro, F., Sotiropoulos, S. N., …Andersson, J. (2019). Automated quality control for within and between studies diffusion MRI data using a non-parametric framework for movement and distortion correction. NeuroImage, 184, 801-812. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.09.073

Diffusion MRI data can be affected by hardware and subject-related artefacts that can adversely affect downstream analyses. Therefore, automated quality control (QC) is of great importance, especially in large population studies where visual QC is no... Read More about Automated quality control for within and between studies diffusion MRI data using a non-parametric framework for movement and distortion correction.

Extending the Human Connectome Project across ages: imaging protocols for the Lifespan Development and Aging projects (2018)
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Harms, M. P., Somerville, L. H., Ances, B. M., Andersson, J., Barch, D. M., Bastiani, M., …Yacoub, E. (2018). Extending the Human Connectome Project across ages: imaging protocols for the Lifespan Development and Aging projects. NeuroImage, 183, 972-984. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.09.060

The Human Connectome Projects in Development (HCP-D) and Aging (HCP-A) are two large-scale brain imaging studies that will extend the recently completed HCP Young-Adult (HCP-YA) project to nearly the full lifespan, collecting structural, resting-sta... Read More about Extending the Human Connectome Project across ages: imaging protocols for the Lifespan Development and Aging projects.

Automated processing pipeline for neonatal diffusion MRI in the developing Human Connectome Project (2018)
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Bastiani, M., Andersson, J. L., Cordero-Grande, L., Murgasova, M., Hutter, J., Price, A. N., …Sotiropoulos, S. N. (2019). Automated processing pipeline for neonatal diffusion MRI in the developing Human Connectome Project. NeuroImage, 185, 750-763. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.05.064

The developing Human Connectome Project is set to create and make available to the scientific community a 4-dimensional map of functional and structural cerebral connectivity from 20 to 44 weeks post-menstrual age, to allow exploration of the genetic... Read More about Automated processing pipeline for neonatal diffusion MRI in the developing Human Connectome Project.

A gyral coordinate system predictive of fibre orientations (2018)
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Cottaar, M., Bastiani, M., Chen, C., Dikranian, K., Van Essen, D., Behrens, T. E., …Jbabdi, S. (2018). A gyral coordinate system predictive of fibre orientations. NeuroImage, 176, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.04.040

When axonal fibres approach or leave the cortex, their trajectories tend to closely follow the cortical convolutions. To quantify this tendency, we propose a three-dimensional coordinate system based on the gyral geometry. For every voxel in the brai... Read More about A gyral coordinate system predictive of fibre orientations.

The Developing Human Connectome Project: a minimal processing pipeline for neonatal cortical surface reconstruction (2018)
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Makropoulos, A., Robinson, E. C., Schuh, A., Wright, R., Fitzgibbon, S., Bozek, J., …Rueckert, D. (2018). The Developing Human Connectome Project: a minimal processing pipeline for neonatal cortical surface reconstruction. NeuroImage, 173, 88-112. https://doi.org/10.1101/125526

The Developing Human Connectome Project (dHCP) seeks to create the first 4-dimensional connectome of early life. Understanding this connectome in detail may provide insights into normal as well as abnormal patterns of brain development. Following est... Read More about The Developing Human Connectome Project: a minimal processing pipeline for neonatal cortical surface reconstruction.

Patterns of grey matter loss associated with motor subscores in early Parkinson's disease (2017)
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Li, X., Xing, Y., Martin-Bastida, A., Piccini, P., & Auer, D. P. (in press). Patterns of grey matter loss associated with motor subscores in early Parkinson's disease. NeuroImage: Clinical, 17, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2017.11.009

Classical motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD) such as tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia, and axial symptoms are graded in the Movement Disorders Society Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS) III. It is yet to be ascertained whether... Read More about Patterns of grey matter loss associated with motor subscores in early Parkinson's disease.

Improved tractography using asymmetric fibre orientation distributions (2017)
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Bastiani, M., Cottaar, M., Dikranian, K., Ghosh, A., Zhang, H., Alexander, D. C., …Sotiropoulos, S. N. (2017). Improved tractography using asymmetric fibre orientation distributions. NeuroImage, 158, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.06.050

Diffusion MRI allows us to make inferences on the structural organisation of the brain by mapping water diffusion to white matter microstructure. However, such a mapping is generally ill-defined; for instance, diffusion measurements are antipodally s... Read More about Improved tractography using asymmetric fibre orientation distributions.

Time-efficient and flexible design of optimized multishell HARDI diffusion (2017)
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Hutter, J., Tournier, J. D., Price, A. N., Cordero-Grande, L., Hughes, E. J., Malik, S., …Hajnal, J. V. (2018). Time-efficient and flexible design of optimized multishell HARDI diffusion. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 79(3), 1276-1292. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.26765

Purpose: Advanced diffusion magnetic resonance imaging benefits from collecting as much data as is feasible but is highly sensitive to subject motion and the risk of data loss increases with longer acquisition times. Our purpose was to create a maxim... Read More about Time-efficient and flexible design of optimized multishell HARDI diffusion.

A new generation of magnetoencephalography: Room temperature measurements using optically-pumped magnetometers (2017)
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Boto, E., Meyer, S. S., Shah, V., Alem, O., Knappe, S., Kruger, P., …Brookes, M. J. (2017). A new generation of magnetoencephalography: Room temperature measurements using optically-pumped magnetometers. NeuroImage, 149, 404-414. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.01.034

© 2017 The Authors Advances in the field of quantum sensing mean that magnetic field sensors, operating at room temperature, are now able to achieve sensitivity similar to that of cryogenically cooled devices (SQUIDs). This means that room temperatur... Read More about A new generation of magnetoencephalography: Room temperature measurements using optically-pumped magnetometers.