Figure 2.
Dependence of the ratio of the spherical mean of the linear tensor encoded signal (eq. 5) over the spherical tensor encoded signal on the microscopic anisotropy multiplied by the b-value (blue). As the microscopic anisotropy (or b-value) increases the ratio increases from a ratio of one for an isotropic medium. The second-order Taylor expansion (eq. 8) has been overlaid in orange.