Introduction Persistent angular structure (PAS) MRI [1] is one of many approaches that recover complex white matter fibre configurations within single voxels of high angular resolution diffusion MRI (HARDI) data. It continues to exhibit impressive performance compared to other state of the art methods [2], but at the expense of unreasonably long reconstruction times. Here, we propose and test a...

Although the olfactory sense has always been considered with less interest than the visual, auditive or somatic senses, it does plays a major role in our ordinary life, with important implication in dangerous situations or in social and emotional behaviors. Traditional Diffusion Tensor signal model and related tractography have been used in the past years to reconstruct the cranial nerves, incl...

Substantia nigra is an important neuronal structure, located in the ventral midbrain, that exerts a regulatory function within the basal ganglia circuitry through the nigro-striatal pathway. Although its subcortical connections are relatively well-known in human brain, little is known about its cortical connections. The existence of a direct cortico-nigral pathway has been demonstrated in roden...

The development of cloning vectors for green fluorescent protein (GFP) and the simplicity of yeast reverse genetics allow straightforward labeling of yeast proteins in living cells. Budding and fission yeast are therefore attractive organisms in which to study dynamic cellular processes such as growth, cell division, and morphogenesis using live cell fluorescence microscopy. This article focuse...

This study examines the structural integrity and the hemispheric lateralization patterns of four major association fiber pathways in a group of French dyslexic children and age-matched controls (from 9 to 14 years), using high angular diffusion imaging combined with spherical deconvolution tractography. Compared with age-matched controls, dyslexic children show increased hindrance-modulated ori...

In modern high-NA optical scanning instruments, like scanning microscopes, the refractive-index mismatch between the sample and the immersion medium introduces a significant amount of spherical aberration when imaging deep inside the specimen, spreading out the impulse response. Since such aberration depends on the focalization depth, it is not possible to achieve a static global compensation f...

The connections between the cerebellum and basal ganglia were assumed to occur at the level of neocortex. However evidences from animal data have challenged this old perspective showing extensive subcortical pathways linking the cerebellum with the basal ganglia. Here we tested the hypothesis if these connections also exist between the cerebellum and basal ganglia in the human brain by using di...

The successful implementation of spherical aberration correction in the scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) is one of the most significant accomplishments in electron optics in the last few decades. Correction of magnetic lens aberrations to the third order has led to significant improvements in point resolution and signal-to-noise ratio, expanding the range of accessible lattice s...

INTRODUCTION MR tractography methods depend on the accurate estimation of orientation distribution functions (ODFs) from diffusion MRI data. A new ODF estimation method called the Funk-Radon and Cosine Transform (FRACT) was recently introduced for this purpose [1]. The FRACT is a linear method that generalizes the previous Funk-Radon Transform (FRT) [2]. While the FRACT is as easy to characteri...

In performing blind deconvolution to remove reverberation from speech signal, most acoustic deconvolution filters need a great many number of taps, and acoustic environments are often time-varying. Therefore, deconvolution filter coefficients should find their desired values with limited data, but conventional methods need lots of data to converge the coefficients. In this paper, we use sparse ...