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001 SS SCH 900776 in vivo across different brain regions and is compromised in a range of neurodegenerative disorders. In general, the microstructural compartments have unique magnetic susceptibilities driven by their chemical compositions and molecular arrangements. In the presence of an external magnetic field, differences in magnetic susceptibilities between adjacent compartments generate local magnetic field perturbations, and hence a range of magnetic resonance frequencies. The precise B3GAT3 field perturbation depends on the geometry of the compartments, their spatial arrangement and direction of the main magnetic field, B0. This raises the intriguing possibility that this microenvironment might be reflected in MR signal changes driven by the magnetic field distribution within an imaging voxel. There is a long-standing literature on signal changes due to partially-oxygenated blood vessels, but brain parenchymal microstructure has received less attention. Gradient echo (GRE) MR techniques that are sensitive to magnetic susceptibility effects, such as R2* mapping and phase imaging, have been proposed to probe various aspects of WM microstructure ( Duyn et al., 2007, Fukunaga et al., 2010, He and Yablonskiy, 2009?and?Lee et al., 2010a), with recent interest due to the high contrast afforded by ultra-high field strength scanners (��?7 Tesla). Correlation of R2* and GRE phase images with non-heme iron (primarily the iron storage protein, ferritin) have been reported in the gray matter ( Fukunaga et al., 2010, Gelman et al., 1999, Haacke et al., 2005, Ogg et al., 1999, Schipper, 2012?and?Yao et al., 2009); however, the relationship between WM regions is less studied. The degree of myelination has been shown to significantly affect both R2* and phase in WM ( Lee et al., 2012, Liu et al., 2011?and?Lodygensky et al., 2012). Recent studies have reported modulation of R2* and phase with http://www.selleckchem.com/products/NVP-AUY922.html orientation of the WM fiber to B0 ( Bender and Klose, 2010, Cherubini et al., 2009, Denk et al, 2011, He and Yablonskiy, 2009, Lee et al., 2010a, Lee et al., 2011, Liu, 2010, Marques et al., 2009?and?Sati et al., 2012), which strongly implicates magnetic susceptibility as the origin of this effect. Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain the observed signal properties, including magnetic susceptibility anisotropy (Lee et al., 2010a?and?Liu, 2010) and the presence of cylindrical susceptibility-shifted inclusions (He and Yablonskiy, 2009).