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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: NMR Biomed. 2016 Apr 27;30(4):10.1002/nbm.3540. doi: 10.1002/nbm.3540

Figure 2. The axon and molecular coordinate systems.

Figure 2

(A) Schematic representation of the spiraling myelin sheath around an axon. (B) Schematic representation of the radial alignment of myelin lipid molecules. (C) The axon coordinate system (x, y and z) and the molecular susceptibility tensor of a myelin lipid molecule in its molecular coordinate system.