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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neurol Clin. 2011 May;29(2):357–380. doi: 10.1016/j.ncl.2010.12.011

Figure 3.

Figure 3

(A) Cartoon of an axon with myelin sheaths (blue). A water molecule diffusing in this environment follows a path with movement preferentially aligned along the myelin sheath (red arrow). (B) Diffusion ellipsoid representation of diffusion tensor, with long axis aligned with preferred direction of water diffusion.