Research

Two PIs, complementary expertise across the whole pipeline

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• Voronova AK, Prior O, Grigoriou A, Salvà F, Elez E, Atlagich LM, Sala-Llonch R, Palombo M, Fieremans E, Novikov DS, Perez-Lopez R, Grussu F. Simulation-Informed Evaluation of Microvascular Parameter Mapping for Diffusion MR Imaging of Solid Tumours. (2026) Magn Reson Med. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Lee HH, Chan KS, Novikov DS, Fieremans E, Huang SY. Axon Diameter Mapping From Myelin Water Diffusion MRI. (2026) IEEE Trans Med Imaging. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Abronina PI, Kuznetsova ZV, Novikov DS, Zinin AI, Kolotyrkina NGG, Kononov LO. Super-Armed Thiomannopyranosides in the Synthesis of a Mannose-Capped Trisaccharide of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Lipoarabinomannan. (2026) Molecules. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Coelho S, Chen J, Szczepankiewicz F, Fieremans E, Novikov DS. Geometry of the cumulant series in diffusion MRI. (2026) Nat Commun. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Ma J, Stepanov V, Rui W, Chen HC, Lis M, Stanek A, Puto T, Lan M, Chen J, Liu T, Patel R, Breen M et al.. Diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis Using Multimodal Deep Learning Integrating Lesion and Normal-Appearing White Matter: A Retrospective Study with International Multicentre External Validation. (2026) medRxiv. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Chung S, Shin SH, Alivar A, McGiffin JN, Coelho S, Rath JF, Fieremans E, Novikov DS, El Berkaoui A, Foo FY, Rashbaum IG, Amorapanth P et al.. Linking Symptom Phenotypes to Patterns of White Matter Injury in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A Latent Class Analysis. (2026) AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Jensen JH, Coronado-Leija R, Fieremans E. Monte Carlo Assessment of Accuracy for Mean Kärger Model Water Exchange Rate Estimates From Diffusional Kurtosis Time Dependence. (2026) NMR Biomed. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Coelho S, Lemberskiy G, Zhu A, Lee HH, Abad N, Foo TKF, Fieremans E, Novikov DS. What If Each Voxel Were Measured With a Different Diffusion Protocol?. (2026) Magn Reson Med. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Figueredo LF, Chen J, Gaggi NL, Song X, Jacobs T, Silva-Albornoz G, Pehel S, Gonzalez M, Badia SG, Rosenzweig I, Naismith SL, Ramos-Cejudo J et al.. White matter microstructure differences in obstructive sleep apnea severity groups assessed by diffusion tensor metrics and biophysical modeling. (2026) Sci Rep. [PubMed] [DOI]

• Grigoriou A, Macarro C, Palombo M, Navarro-Garcia D, Voronova AK, Bernatowicz K, Barba I, Escriche A, Greco E, Abad M, Simonetti S, Serna G et al.. Histology-informed microstructural diffusion simulations for MRI cancer characterisation-the Histo-μSim framework. (2025) Commun Biol. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Ramos-Cejudo J, Beiser AS, Lu S, Tanner JA, Scott MR, He T, Ghosh S, Johnson KA, Salinas J, Bubu OM, Fieremans E, Convit A et al.. Association of Platelet Aggregation With Markers of Alzheimer Disease Pathology in Middle-Aged Participants of the Framingham Heart Study. (2025) Neurology. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Stepanov VN, Coelho S, Ades-Aron B, Chen J, Shepherd TM, Novikov DS, Kister I, Fieremans E. Normal appearing white matter and disability in multiple sclerosis. (2025) medRxiv. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Abdollahzadeh A, Coronado-Leija R, Lee HH, Sierra A, Fieremans E, Novikov DS. Scattering approach to diffusion quantifies axonal damage in brain injury. (2025) Nat Commun. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Abdollahzadeh A, Coronado-Leija R, Lee HH, Sierra A, Fieremans E, Novikov DS. Scattering approach to diffusion quantifies axonal damage in brain injury. (2025) ArXiv. [PubMed]
• Zhu A, Michael ES, Li H, Sprenger T, Hua Y, Lee SK, Yeo DTB, McNab JA, Hennel F, Fieremans E, Wu D, Foo TKF et al.. Engineering clinical translation of OGSE diffusion MRI. (2025) Magn Reson Med. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Coelho S, Chen J, Szczepankiewicz F, Fieremans E, Novikov DS. Diffusion MRI invariants: from the group of rotations to a complete neuroimaging fingerprint. (2025) ArXiv. [PubMed]
• Coelho S, Lemberskiy G, Zhu A, Lee HH, Abad N, Foo TKF, Fieremans E, Novikov DS. What if each voxel were measured with a different diffusion protocol?. (2025) ArXiv. [PubMed]
• Tian Q, Ngamsombat C, Lee HH, Berger DR, Wu Y, Fan Q, Bilgic B, Li Z, Novikov DS, Fieremans E, Rosen BR, Lichtman JW et al.. Quantifying axonal features of human superficial white matter from three-dimensional multibeam serial electron microscopy data assisted by deep learning. (2025) Neuroimage. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Schilling KG, Grussu F, Ianus A, Hansen B, Howard AFD, Barrett RLC, Aggarwal M, Michielse S, Nasrallah F, Syeda W, Wang N, Veraart J et al.. Considerations and recommendations from the ISMRM diffusion study group for preclinical diffusion MRI: Part 2-Ex vivo imaging: Added value and acquisition. (2025) Magn Reson Med. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Jelescu IO, Grussu F, Ianus A, Hansen B, Barrett RLC, Aggarwal M, Michielse S, Nasrallah F, Syeda W, Wang N, Veraart J, Roebroeck A et al.. Considerations and recommendations from the ISMRM diffusion study group for preclinical diffusion MRI: Part 1: In vivo small-animal imaging. (2025) Magn Reson Med. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Schilling KG, Howard AFD, Grussu F, Ianus A, Hansen B, Barrett RLC, Aggarwal M, Michielse S, Nasrallah F, Syeda W, Wang N, Veraart J et al.. Considerations and recommendations from the ISMRM Diffusion Study Group for preclinical diffusion MRI: Part 3-Ex vivo imaging: Data processing, comparisons with microscopy, and tractography. (2025) Magn Reson Med. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Voronova AK, Grigoriou A, Bernatowicz K, Simonetti S, Serna G, Roson N, Escobar M, Vieito M, Nuciforo P, Toledo R, Garralda E, Fieremans E et al.. SpinFlowSim: A blood flow simulation framework for histology-informed diffusion MRI microvasculature mapping in cancer. (2025) Med Image Anal. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Ades-Aron B, Coelho S, Lemberskiy G, Veraart J, Baete SH, Shepherd TM, Novikov DS, Fieremans E. Denoising Improves Cross-Scanner and Cross-Protocol Test-Retest Reproducibility of Diffusion Tensor and Kurtosis Imaging. (2025) Hum Brain Mapp. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Lee HH, Novikov DS, Fieremans E, Huang SY. Revealing membrane integrity and cell size from diffusion kurtosis time dependence. (2025) Magn Reson Med. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Chan KS, Ma Y, Lee H, Marques JP, Olesen JL, Coelho S, Novikov DS, Jespersen SN, Huang SY, Lee HH. In vivo human neurite exchange time imaging at 500 mT/m diffusion gradients: Neurite exchange time imaging on Connectome 2.0. (2025) Imaging Neurosci (Camb). [PubMed] [DOI]

• Chan KS, Ma Y, Lee H, Marques JP, Olesen J, Coelho S, Novikov DS, Jespersen S, Huang SY, Lee HH. In vivo human neurite exchange imaging (NEXI) at 500 mT/m diffusion gradients. (2024) bioRxiv. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Chung S, Fieremans E, Novikov DS, Lui YW. Microstructurally informed subject-specific parcellation of the corpus callosum using axonal water fraction. (2024) Brain Struct Funct. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Pan Y, Hong LE, Acheson A, Thompson PM, Jahanshad N, Zhu AH, Yu J, Chen C, Ma T, Liu HL, Veraart J, Fieremans E et al.. A Site-Wise Reliability Analysis of the ABCD Diffusion Fractional Anisotropy and Cortical Thickness: Impact of Scanner Platforms. (2024) Hum Brain Mapp. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Kochunov P, Hong LE, Summerfelt A, Gao S, Brown PL, Terzi M, Acheson A, Woldorff MG, Fieremans E, Abdollahzadeh A, Sathyasaikumar KV, Clark SM et al.. White matter and latency of visual evoked potentials during maturation: A miniature pig model of adolescent development. (2024) J Neurosci Methods. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Wu D, Lee HH, Ba R, Turnbill V, Wang X, Luo Y, Walczak P, Fieremans E, Novikov DS, Martin LJ, Northington FJ, Zhang J. In vivo mapping of cellular resolution neuropathology in brain ischemia with diffusion MRI. (2024) Sci Adv. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Coronado-Leija R, Abdollahzadeh A, Lee HH, Coelho S, Ades-Aron B, Liao Y, Salo RA, Tohka J, Sierra A, Novikov DS, Fieremans E. Volume electron microscopy in injured rat brain validates white matter microstructure metrics from diffusion MRI. (2024) Imaging Neurosci (Camb). [PubMed] [DOI]
• Pang Y, Bang JW, Kasi A, Li J, Parra C, Fieremans E, Wollstein G, Schuman JS, Wang M, Chan KC. Contributions of Brain Microstructures and Metabolism to Visual Field Loss Patterns in Glaucoma Using Archetypal and Information Gain Analyses. (2024) Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Storey P, Novikov DS. Signatures of microstructure in gradient-echo and spin-echo signals. (2024) Magn Reson Med. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Coelho S, Liao Y, Szczepankiewicz F, Veraart J, Chung S, Lui YW, Novikov DS, Fieremans E. Assessment of precision and accuracy of brain white matter microstructure using combined diffusion MRI and relaxometry. (2024) Hum Brain Mapp. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Pan Y, Hong LE, Acheson A, Thompson PM, Jahanshad N, Zhu AH, Yu J, Chen C, Ma T, Liu HL, Veraart J, Fieremans E et al.. A site-wise reliability analysis of the ABCD diffusion fractional anisotropy and cortical thickness: impact of scanner platforms. (2024) bioRxiv. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Chung S, Bacon T, Rath JF, Alivar A, Coelho S, Amorapanth P, Fieremans E, Novikov DS, Flanagan SR, Bacon JH, Lui YW. Callosal Interhemispheric Communication in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A Mediation Analysis on WM Microstructure Effects. (2024) AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Chen J, Ades-Aron B, Lee HH, Mehrin S, Pang M, Novikov DS, Veraart J, Fieremans E. Optimization and validation of the DESIGNER preprocessing pipeline for clinical diffusion MRI in white matter aging. (2024) Imaging Neurosci (Camb). [PubMed] [DOI]
• Lee HH, Tian Q, Sheft M, Coronado-Leija R, Ramos-Llorden G, Abdollahzadeh A, Fieremans E, Novikov DS, Huang SY. The effects of axonal beading and undulation on axonal diameter estimation from diffusion MRI: Insights from simulations in human axons segmented from three-dimensional electron microscopy. (2024) NMR Biomed. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Chen J, Ades-Aron B, Lee HH, Mehrin S, Pang M, Novikov DS, Veraart J, Fieremans E. Optimization and Validation of the DESIGNER dMRI preprocessing pipeline in white matter aging. (2024) ArXiv. [PubMed]
• Liao Y, Coelho S, Chen J, Ades-Aron B, Pang M, Stepanov V, Osorio R, Shepherd T, Lui YW, Novikov DS, Fieremans E. Mapping tissue microstructure of brain white matter in vivo in health and disease using diffusion MRI. (2024) Imaging Neurosci (Camb). [PubMed] [DOI]
• Coelho S, Liao Y, Szczepankiewicz F, Veraart J, Chung S, Lui YW, Novikov DS, Fieremans E. Assessment of Precision and Accuracy of Brain White Matter Microstructure using Combined Diffusion MRI and Relaxometry. (2024) ArXiv. [PubMed]
• Coronado-Leija R, Abdollahzadeh A, Lee HH, Coelho S, Ades-Aron B, Liao Y, Salo RA, Tohka J, Sierra A, Novikov DS, Fieremans E. Volume electron microscopy in injured rat brain validates white matter microstructure metrics from diffusion MRI. (2024) ArXiv. [PubMed]

• Liao Y, Coelho S, Chen J, Ades-Aron B, Pang M, Osorio R, Shepherd T, Lui YW, Novikov DS, Fieremans E. Mapping tissue microstructure of brain white matter in vivo in health and disease using diffusion MRI. (2023) ArXiv. [PubMed]
• Chen J, Chung S, Li T, Fieremans E, Novikov DS, Wang Y, Lui YW. Identifying relevant diffusion MRI microstructure biomarkers relating to exposure to repeated head impacts in contact sport athletes. (2023) Neuroradiol J. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Lee HH, Keerthivasan MB, Lemberskiy G, Zhang J, Fieremans E, Novikov DS. Universal Sampling Denoising (USD) for noise mapping and noise removal of non-Cartesian MRI. (2023) ArXiv. [PubMed]
• Chung S, Fieremans E, Novikov DS, Lui YW. Microstructurally Informed Subject-Specific Parcellation of the Corpus Callosum using Axonal Water Fraction. (2023) Res Sq. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Lemberskiy G, Chandarana H, Bruno M, Ginocchio LA, Huang C, Tong A, Keerthivasan MB, Fieremans E, Novikov DS. Feasibility of Accelerated Prostate Diffusion-Weighted Imaging on 0.55 T MRI Enabled With Random Matrix Theory Denoising. (2023) Invest Radiol. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Wu D, Turnbill V, Lee HH, Wang X, Ba R, Walczak P, Martin LJ, Fieremans E, Novikov DS, Northington FJ, Zhang J. In vivo Mapping of Cellular Resolution Neuropathology in Brain Ischemia by Diffusion MRI. (2023) bioRxiv. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Ruh A, Emerich P, Scherer H, Novikov DS, Kiselev VG. Observation of magnetic structural universality and jamming transition with NMR. (2023) J Magn Reson. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Lee HH, Tian Q, Sheft M, Coronado-Leija R, Ramos-Llorden G, Abdollahzadeh A, Fieremans E, Novikov DS, Huang SY. The influence of axonal beading and undulation on axonal diameter mapping. (2023) bioRxiv. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Li C, Fieremans E, Novikov DS, Ge Y, Zhang J. Measuring water exchange on a preclinical MRI system using filter exchange and diffusion time dependent kurtosis imaging. (2023) Magn Reson Med. [PubMed] [DOI]

• Coelho S, Baete SH, Lemberskiy G, Ades-Aron B, Barrol G, Veraart J, Novikov DS, Fieremans E. Reproducibility of the Standard Model of diffusion in white matter on clinical MRI systems. (2022) Neuroimage. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Jelescu IO, de Skowronski A, Geffroy F, Palombo M, Novikov DS. Neurite Exchange Imaging (NEXI): A minimal model of diffusion in gray matter with inter-compartment water exchange. (2022) Neuroimage. [PubMed] [DOI]

• Huang SY, Witzel T, Keil B, Scholz A, Davids M, Dietz P, Rummert E, Ramb R, Kirsch JE, Yendiki A, Fan Q, Tian Q et al.. Connectome 2.0: Developing the next-generation ultra-high gradient strength human MRI scanner for bridging studies of the micro-, meso- and macro-connectome. (2021) Neuroimage. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Lee HH, Novikov DS, Fieremans E. Removal of partial Fourier-induced Gibbs (RPG) ringing artifacts in MRI. (2021) Magn Reson Med. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Hoch MJ, Bruno M, Pacione D, Lui YW, Fieremans E, Shepherd TM. Simultaneous Multislice for Accelerating Diffusion MRI in Clinical Neuroradiology Protocols. (2021) AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Lemberskiy G, Feiweier T, Gyftopoulos S, Axel L, Novikov DS, Fieremans E. Assessment of myofiber microstructure changes due to atrophy and recovery with time-dependent diffusion MRI. (2021) NMR Biomed. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Zhang J, Lemberskiy G, Moy L, Fieremans E, Novikov DS, Kim SG. Measurement of cellular-interstitial water exchange time in tumors based on diffusion-time-dependent diffusional kurtosis imaging. (2021) NMR Biomed. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Georgiadis M, Schroeter A, Gao Z, Guizar-Sicairos M, Liebi M, Leuze C, McNab JA, Balolia A, Veraart J, Ades-Aron B, Kim S, Shepherd T et al.. Nanostructure-specific X-ray tomography reveals myelin levels, integrity and axon orientations in mouse and human nervous tissue. (2021) Nat Commun. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Novikov DS. The present and the future of microstructure MRI: From a paradigm shift to normal science. (2021) J Neurosci Methods. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Lee HH, Fieremans E, Novikov DS. Realistic Microstructure Simulator (RMS): Monte Carlo simulations of diffusion in three-dimensional cell segmentations of microscopy images. (2021) J Neurosci Methods. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Ades-Aron B, Lemberskiy G, Veraart J, Golfinos J, Fieremans E, Novikov DS, Shepherd T. Improved Task-based Functional MRI Language Mapping in Patients with Brain Tumors through Marchenko-Pastur Principal Component Analysis Denoising. (2021) Radiology. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Muckley MJ, Ades-Aron B, Papaioannou A, Lemberskiy G, Solomon E, Lui YW, Sodickson DK, Fieremans E, Novikov DS, Knoll F. Training a neural network for Gibbs and noise removal in diffusion MRI. (2021) Magn Reson Med. [PubMed] [DOI]

• Goldberg E, Podell K, Sodickson DK, Fieremans E. The brain after COVID-19: Compensatory neurogenesis or persistent neuroinflammation?. (2020) EClinicalMedicine. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Lee HH, Jespersen SN, Fieremans E, Novikov DS. The impact of realistic axonal shape on axon diameter estimation using diffusion MRI. (2020) Neuroimage. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Lee HH, Papaioannou A, Novikov DS, Fieremans E. In vivo observation and biophysical interpretation of time-dependent diffusion in human cortical gray matter. (2020) Neuroimage. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Grussu F, Battiston M, Veraart J, Schneider T, Cohen-Adad J, Shepherd TM, Alexander DC, Fieremans E, Novikov DS, Gandini Wheeler-Kingshott CAM. Multi-parametric quantitative in vivo spinal cord MRI with unified signal readout and image denoising. (2020) Neuroimage. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Ayoub R, Ruddy RM, Cox E, Oyefiade A, Derkach D, Laughlin S, Ades-Aron B, Shirzadi Z, Fieremans E, MacIntosh BJ, de Medeiros CB, Skocic J et al.. Assessment of cognitive and neural recovery in survivors of pediatric brain tumors in a pilot clinical trial using metformin. (2020) Nat Med. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Lee HH, Papaioannou A, Kim SL, Novikov DS, Fieremans E. A time-dependent diffusion MRI signature of axon caliber variations and beading. (2020) Commun Biol. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Sun Z, Parra C, Bang JW, Fieremans E, Wollstein G, Schuman JS, Chan KC. Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging Reveals Optic Tract Damage That Correlates with Clinical Severity in Glaucoma. (2020) Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Dong JW, Jelescu IO, Ades-Aron B, Novikov DS, Friedman K, Babb JS, Osorio RS, Galvin JE, Shepherd TM, Fieremans E. Diffusion MRI biomarkers of white matter microstructure vary nonmonotonically with increasing cerebral amyloid deposition. (2020) Neurobiol Aging. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Veraart J, Nunes D, Rudrapatna U, Fieremans E, Jones DK, Novikov DS, Shemesh N. Nonivasive quantification of axon radii using diffusion MRI. (2020) Elife. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Vieni C, Ades-Aron B, Conti B, Sigmund EE, Riviello P, Shepherd TM, Lui YW, Novikov DS, Fieremans E. Effect of intravoxel incoherent motion on diffusion parameters in normal brain. (2020) Neuroimage. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Georgiadis M, Schroeter A, Gao Z, Guizar-Sicairos M, Novikov DS, Fieremans E, Rudin M. Retrieving neuronal orientations using 3D scanning SAXS and comparison with diffusion MRI. (2020) Neuroimage. [PubMed] [DOI]

• Minaee S, Wang Y, Aygar A, Chung S, Wang X, Lui YW, Fieremans E, Flanagan S, Rath J. MTBI Identification From Diffusion MR Images Using Bag of Adversarial Visual Features. (2019) IEEE Trans Med Imaging. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Chung S, Wang X, Fieremans E, Rath JF, Amorapanth P, Foo FA, Morton CJ, Novikov DS, Flanagan SR, Lui YW. Altered Relationship between Working Memory and Brain Microstructure after Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. (2019) AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Lee HH, Yaros K, Veraart J, Pathan JL, Liang FX, Kim SG, Novikov DS, Fieremans E. Along-axon diameter variation and axonal orientation dispersion revealed with 3D electron microscopy: implications for quantifying brain white matter microstructure with histology and diffusion MRI. (2019) Brain Struct Funct. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Kochunov P, Donohue B, Mitchell BD, Ganjgahi H, Adhikari B, Ryan M, Medland SE, Jahanshad N, Thompson PM, Blangero J, Fieremans E, Novikov DS et al.. Genomic kinship construction to enhance genetic analyses in the human connectome project data. (2019) Hum Brain Mapp. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Novikov DS, Fieremans E, Jespersen SN, Kiselev VG. Quantifying brain microstructure with diffusion MRI: Theory and parameter estimation. (2019) NMR Biomed. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Veraart J, Fieremans E, Novikov DS. On the scaling behavior of water diffusion in human brain white matter. (2019) Neuroimage. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Assländer J, Novikov DS, Lattanzi R, Sodickson DK, Cloos MA. Hybrid-state free precession in nuclear magnetic resonance. (2019) Commun Phys. [PubMed] [DOI]

• Ades-Aron B, Yeager S, Miskin N, Fieremans E, George A, Golomb J. Diffusional Kurtosis along the Corticospinal Tract in Adult Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. (2018) AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Ades-Aron B, Veraart J, Kochunov P, McGuire S, Sherman P, Kellner E, Novikov DS, Fieremans E. Evaluation of the accuracy and precision of the diffusion parameter EStImation with Gibbs and NoisE removal pipeline. (2018) Neuroimage. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Adhikari BM, Jahanshad N, Shukla D, Glahn DC, Blangero J, Fox PT, Reynolds RC, Cox RW, Fieremans E, Veraart J, Novikov DS, Nichols TE et al.. Comparison of heritability estimates on resting state fMRI connectivity phenotypes using the ENIGMA analysis pipeline. (2018) Hum Brain Mapp. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Fieremans E, Lee HH. Physical and numerical phantoms for the validation of brain microstructural MRI: A cookbook. (2018) Neuroimage. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Kiselev VG, Novikov DS. Transverse NMR relaxation in biological tissues. (2018) Neuroimage. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Lee HH, Fieremans E, Novikov DS. What dominates the time dependence of diffusion transverse to axons: Intra- or extra-axonal water?. (2018) Neuroimage. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Veraart J, Novikov DS, Fieremans E. TE dependent Diffusion Imaging (TEdDI) distinguishes between compartmental T(2) relaxation times. (2018) Neuroimage. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Winters KV, Reynaud O, Novikov DS, Fieremans E, Kim SG. Quantifying myofiber integrity using diffusion MRI and random permeable barrier modeling in skeletal muscle growth and Duchenne muscular dystrophy model in mice. (2018) Magn Reson Med. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Lemberskiy G, Fieremans E, Veraart J, Deng FM, Rosenkrantz AB, Novikov DS. Characterization of prostate microstructure using water diffusion and NMR relaxation. (2018) Front Phys. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Novikov DS, Reisert M, Kiselev VG. Effects of mesoscopic susceptibility and transverse relaxation on diffusion NMR. (2018) J Magn Reson. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Minaee S, Wang Y, Choromanska A, Chung S, Wang X, Fieremans E, Flanagan S, Rath J, Lui YW. A Deep Unsupervised Learning Approach Toward MTBI Identification Using Diffusion MRI. (2018) Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Novikov DS, Veraart J, Jelescu IO, Fieremans E. Rotationally-invariant mapping of scalar and orientational metrics of neuronal microstructure with diffusion MRI. (2018) Neuroimage. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Novikov DS, Kiselev VG, Jespersen SN. On modeling. (2018) Magn Reson Med. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Chung S, Fieremans E, Wang X, Kucukboyaci NE, Morton CJ, Babb J, Amorapanth P, Foo FA, Novikov DS, Flanagan SR, Rath JF, Lui YW. White Matter Tract Integrity: An Indicator of Axonal Pathology after Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. (2018) J Neurotrauma. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Chung S, Fieremans E, Kucukboyaci NE, Wang X, Morton CJ, Novikov DS, Rath JF, Lui YW. Working Memory And Brain Tissue Microstructure: White Matter Tract Integrity Based On Multi-Shell Diffusion MRI. (2018) Sci Rep. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Ryan MC, Sherman P, Rowland LM, Wijtenburg SA, Acheson A, Fieremans E, Veraart J, Novikov DS, Hong LE, Sladky J, Peralta PD, Kochunov P et al.. Miniature pig model of human adolescent brain white matter development. (2018) J Neurosci Methods. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Kochunov P, Dickie EW, Viviano JD, Turner J, Kingsley PB, Jahanshad N, Thompson PM, Ryan MC, Fieremans E, Novikov D, Veraart J, Hong EL et al.. Integration of routine QA data into mega-analysis may improve quality and sensitivity of multisite diffusion tensor imaging studies. (2018) Hum Brain Mapp. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Adhikari BM, Jahanshad N, Shukla D, Glahn DC, Blangero J, Reynolds RC, Cox RW, Fieremans E, Veraart J, Novikov DS, Nichols TE, Hong LE et al.. Heritability estimates on resting state fMRI data using ENIGMA analysis pipeline. (2018) Pac Symp Biocomput. [PubMed]

• Papaioannou A, Novikov DS, Fieremans E, Boutis GS. Observation of structural universality in disordered systems using bulk diffusion measurement. (2017) Phys Rev E. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Ryan M, Kochunov P, Rowland LM, Mitchell BD, Wijtenburg SA, Fieremans E, Veraart J, Novikov DS, Du X, Adhikari B, Fisseha F, Bruce H et al.. Lipid Metabolism, Abdominal Adiposity, and Cerebral Health in the Amish. (2017) Obesity (Silver Spring). [PubMed] [DOI]
• Lemberskiy G, Rosenkrantz AB, Veraart J, Taneja SS, Novikov DS, Fieremans E. Time-Dependent Diffusion in Prostate Cancer. (2017) Invest Radiol. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Lemberskiy G, Baete SH, Cloos MA, Novikov DS, Fieremans E. Validation of surface-to-volume ratio measurements derived from oscillating gradient spin echo on a clinical scanner using anisotropic fiber phantoms. (2017) NMR Biomed. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Fieremans E, Lemberskiy G, Veraart J, Sigmund EE, Gyftopoulos S, Novikov DS. In vivo measurement of membrane permeability and myofiber size in human muscle using time-dependent diffusion tensor imaging and the random permeable barrier model. (2017) NMR Biomed. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Shepherd TM, Hoch MJ, Cohen BA, Bruno MT, Fieremans E, Rosen G, Pacione D, Mogilner AY. Palliative CT-Guided Cordotomy for Medically Intractable Pain in Patients with Cancer. (2017) AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. [PubMed] [DOI]

• Kochunov P, Rowland LM, Fieremans E, Veraart J, Jahanshad N, Eskandar G, Du X, Muellerklein F, Savransky A, Shukla D, Sampath H, Thompson PM et al.. Diffusion-weighted imaging uncovers likely sources of processing-speed deficits in schizophrenia. (2016) Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Veraart J, Novikov DS, Christiaens D, Ades-Aron B, Sijbers J, Fieremans E. Denoising of diffusion MRI using random matrix theory. (2016) Neuroimage. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Veraart J, Fieremans E, Novikov DS. Diffusion MRI noise mapping using random matrix theory. (2016) Magn Reson Med. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Reynaud O, Winters KV, Hoang DM, Wadghiri YZ, Novikov DS, Kim SG. Pulsed and oscillating gradient MRI for assessment of cell size and extracellular space (POMACE) in mouse gliomas. (2016) NMR Biomed. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Veraart J, Fieremans E, Jelescu IO, Knoll F, Novikov DS. Gibbs ringing in diffusion MRI. (2016) Magn Reson Med. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Reynaud O, Winters KV, Hoang DM, Wadghiri YZ, Novikov DS, Kim SG. Surface-to-volume ratio mapping of tumor microstructure using oscillating gradient diffusion weighted imaging. (2016) Magn Reson Med. [PubMed] [DOI]
• de Kouchkovsky I, Fieremans E, Fleysher L, Herbert J, Grossman RI, Inglese M. Quantification of normal-appearing white matter tract integrity in multiple sclerosis: a diffusion kurtosis imaging study. (2016) J Neurol. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Jelescu IO, Zurek M, Winters KV, Veraart J, Rajaratnam A, Kim NS, Babb JS, Shepherd TM, Novikov DS, Kim SG, Fieremans E. In vivo quantification of demyelination and recovery using compartment-specific diffusion MRI metrics validated by electron microscopy. (2016) Neuroimage. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Tarasoff-Conway JM, Carare RO, Osorio RS, Glodzik L, Butler T, Fieremans E, Axel L, Rusinek H, Nicholson C, Zlokovic BV, Frangione B, Blennow K et al.. Clearance systems in the brain--implications for Alzheimer diseaser. (2016) Nat Rev Neurol. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Fieremans E, Burcaw LM, Lee HH, Lemberskiy G, Veraart J, Novikov DS. In vivo observation and biophysical interpretation of time-dependent diffusion in human white matter. (2016) Neuroimage. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Guglielmetti C, Veraart J, Roelant E, Mai Z, Daans J, Van Audekerke J, Naeyaert M, Vanhoutte G, Delgado Y Palacios R, Praet J, Fieremans E, Ponsaerts P et al.. Diffusion kurtosis imaging probes cortical alterations and white matter pathology following cuprizone induced demyelination and spontaneous remyelination. (2016) Neuroimage. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Jelescu IO, Veraart J, Fieremans E, Novikov DS. Degeneracy in model parameter estimation for multi-compartmental diffusion in neuronal tissue. (2016) NMR Biomed. [PubMed] [DOI]

• Grossman EJ, Kirov II, Gonen O, Novikov DS, Davitz MS, Lui YW, Grossman RI, Inglese M, Fieremans E. N-acetyl-aspartate levels correlate with intra-axonal compartment parameters from diffusion MRI. (2015) Neuroimage. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Tarasoff-Conway JM, Carare RO, Osorio RS, Glodzik L, Butler T, Fieremans E, Axel L, Rusinek H, Nicholson C, Zlokovic BV, Frangione B, Blennow K et al.. Clearance systems in the brain-implications for Alzheimer disease. (2015) Nat Rev Neurol. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Burcaw LM, Fieremans E, Novikov DS. Mesoscopic structure of neuronal tracts from time-dependent diffusion. (2015) Neuroimage. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Serulle Y, Pawar RV, Eubig J, Fieremans E, Kong SE, George IC, Morley C, Babb JS, George AE. Diffusional kurtosis imaging in hydrocephalus. (2015) Magn Reson Imaging. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Jelescu IO, Veraart J, Adisetiyo V, Milla SS, Novikov DS, Fieremans E. One diffusion acquisition and different white matter models: how does microstructure change in human early development based on WMTI and NODDI?. (2015) Neuroimage. [PubMed] [DOI]

• Serulle Y, Rusinek H, Kirov II, Milch H, Fieremans E, Baxter AB, McMenamy J, Jain R, Wisoff J, Golomb J, Gonen O, George AE. Differentiating shunt-responsive normal pressure hydrocephalus from Alzheimer disease and normal aging: pilot study using automated MRI brain tissue segmentation. (2014) J Neurol. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Adisetiyo V, Jensen JH, Tabesh A, Deardorff RL, Fieremans E, Di Martino A, Gray KM, Castellanos FX, Helpern JA. Multimodal MR imaging of brain iron in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a noninvasive biomarker that responds to psychostimulant treatment?. (2014) Radiology. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Sigmund EE, Novikov DS, Sui D, Ukpebor O, Baete S, Babb JS, Liu K, Feiweier T, Kwon J, McGorty K, Bencardino J, Fieremans E. Time-dependent diffusion in skeletal muscle with the random permeable barrier model (RPBM): application to normal controls and chronic exertional compartment syndrome patients. (2014) NMR Biomed. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Novikov DS, Jensen JH, Helpern JA, Fieremans E. Revealing mesoscopic structural universality with diffusion. (2014) Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Paydar A, Fieremans E, Nwankwo JI, Lazar M, Sheth HD, Adisetiyo V, Helpern JA, Jensen JH, Milla SS. Diffusional kurtosis imaging of the developing brain. (2014) AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Nisenbaum EJ, Novikov DS, Lui YW. The presence and role of iron in mild traumatic brain injury: an imaging perspective. (2014) J Neurotrauma. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Reisert M, Kiselev VG, Dihtal B, Kellner E, Novikov DS. MesoFT: unifying diffusion modelling and fiber tracking. (2014) Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv. [PubMed] [DOI]

• Benitez A, Fieremans E, Jensen JH, Falangola MF, Tabesh A, Ferris SH, Helpern JA. White matter tract integrity metrics reflect the vulnerability of late-myelinating tracts in Alzheimer's disease. (2013) Neuroimage Clin. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Fieremans E, Benitez A, Jensen JH, Falangola MF, Tabesh A, Deardorff RL, Spampinato MV, Babb JS, Novikov DS, Ferris SH, Helpern JA. Novel white matter tract integrity metrics sensitive to Alzheimer disease progression. (2013) AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Sigmund EE, Sui D, Ukpebor O, Baete S, Fieremans E, Babb JS, Mechlin M, Liu K, Kwon J, McGorty K, Hodnett PA, Bencardino J. Stimulated echo diffusion tensor imaging and SPAIR T2 -weighted imaging in chronic exertional compartment syndrome of the lower leg muscles. (2013) J Magn Reson Imaging. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Grossman EJ, Jensen JH, Babb JS, Chen Q, Tabesh A, Fieremans E, Xia D, Inglese M, Grossman RI. Cognitive impairment in mild traumatic brain injury: a longitudinal diffusional kurtosis and perfusion imaging study. (2013) AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Kiselev VG, Novikov DS. Comment on "Magnetic resonance imaging by synergistic diffusion-diffraction patterns". (2013) Phys Rev Lett. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Bertrand A, Khan U, Hoang DM, Novikov DS, Krishnamurthy P, Rajamohamed Sait HB, Little BW, Sigurdsson EM, Wadghiri YZ. Non-invasive, in vivo monitoring of neuronal transport impairment in a mouse model of tauopathy using MEMRI. (2013) Neuroimage. [PubMed] [DOI]

• Hui ES, Fieremans E, Jensen JH, Tabesh A, Feng W, Bonilha L, Spampinato MV, Adams R, Helpern JA. Stroke assessment with diffusional kurtosis imaging. (2012) Stroke. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Adisetiyo V, Jensen JH, Ramani A, Tabesh A, Di Martino A, Fieremans E, Castellanos FX, Helpern JA. In vivo assessment of age-related brain iron differences by magnetic field correlation imaging. (2012) J Magn Reson Imaging. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Fieremans E, Pires A, Jensen JH. A simple isotropic phantom for diffusional kurtosis imaging. (2012) Magn Reson Med. [PubMed] [DOI]

• Fieremans E, Jensen JH, Helpern JA. White matter characterization with diffusional kurtosis imaging. (2011) Neuroimage. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Novikov DS, Fieremans E, Jensen JH, Helpern JA. Random walk with barriers. (2011) Nat Phys. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Novikov DS, Kiselev VG. Surface-to-volume ratio with oscillating gradients. (2011) J Magn Reson. [PubMed] [DOI]

• Novikov DS, Kiselev VG. Effective medium theory of a diffusion-weighted signal. (2010) NMR Biomed. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Fieremans E, Novikov DS, Jensen JH, Helpern JA. Monte Carlo study of a two-compartment exchange model of diffusion. (2010) NMR Biomed. [PubMed] [DOI]

• Warlop NP, Achten E, Fieremans E, Debruyne J, Vingerhoets G. Transverse diffusivity of cerebral parenchyma predicts visual tracking performance in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. (2009) Brain Cogn. [PubMed] [DOI]

• Novikov DS, Kiselev VG. Transverse NMR relaxation in magnetically heterogeneous media. (2008) J Magn Reson. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Fieremans E, De Deene Y, Delputte S, Ozdemir MS, Achten E, Lemahieu I. The design of anisotropic diffusion phantoms for the validation of diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging. (2008) Phys Med Biol. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Warlop NP, Fieremans E, Achten E, Debruyne J, Vingerhoets G. Callosal function in MS patients with mild and severe callosal damage as reflected by diffusion tensor imaging. (2008) Brain Res. [PubMed] [DOI]
• Fieremans E, De Deene Y, Delputte S, Ozdemir MS, D'Asseler Y, Vlassenbroeck J, Deblaere K, Achten E, Lemahieu I. Simulation and experimental verification of the diffusion in an anisotropic fiber phantom. (2008) J Magn Reson. [PubMed] [DOI]

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