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Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is essential for studying brain microstructure, but high-resolution imaging remains challenging due to the inherent trade-offs between acquisition time and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Conventional methods often…

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Characterization of microstructures in live tissues is one of the keys to diagnosing early stages of pathology and understanding disease mechanisms. However, the extraction of reliable information on biomarkers based on microstructure…

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Biophysical modeling is the mediator of evaluating the cellular structure of biological tissues using diffusion-weighted MRI. It is however the bottleneck of microstructural MRI. Beyond the complexity of diffusion, the current development…

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