Publications de Ileana Ozana Jelescu

Considerations and recommendations from the ISMRM diffusion study group for preclinical diffusion MRI: Part 1: In vivo small-animal imaging

Small-animal diffusion MRI (dMRI) has been used for methodological development and validation, characterizing the biological basis of diffusion phenomena, and comparative anatomy. The steps from animal setup and monitoring, to acquisition, analysis, and in ...

Wiley2025

Considerations and recommendations from the ISMRM diffusion study group for preclinical diffusion MRI: Part 2-Ex vivo imaging: Added value and acquisition

Ileana Ozana Jelescu

The value of preclinical diffusion MRI (dMRI) is substantial. While dMRI enables in vivo non-invasive characterization of tissue, ex vivo dMRI is increasingly being used to probe tissue microstructure and brain connectivity. Ex vivo dMRI has several experi ...

WILEY2025

Automated quality control of small animal MR neuroimaging data

Ileana Ozana Jelescu, Yujian Diao

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a valuable tool for studying brain structure and function in animal and clinical studies. With the growth of public MRI repositories, access to data has finally become easier. However, filtering large datasets for potent ...

2024

Resting-state functional connectivity abnormalities in subjective cognitive decline: A 7T MRI study

Olivier Benoit Thomas Reynaud, Ileana Ozana Jelescu

Resting-state functional connectivity (FC) MRI is sensitive to brain changes in Alzheimer's disease in preclinical stages, however studies in persons with subjective cognitive decline (SCD) have reported conflicting findings, and no study is available at 7 ...

2024

Cellular EXchange Imaging (CEXI): Evaluation of a diffusion model including water exchange in cells using numerical phantoms of permeable spheres

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Ileana Ozana Jelescu, Gabriel Girard, Jonathan Rafael Patino Lopez, Erick Jorge Canales Rodriguez, Rémy Marc M Gardier, Juan Luis Villarreal Haro

Purpose Biophysical models of diffusion MRI have been developed to characterize microstructure in various tissues, but existing models are not suitable for tissue composed of permeable spherical cells. In this study we introduce Cellular Exchange Imaging ( ...

Wiley2023

A consensus protocol for functional connectivity analysis in the rat brain

Ileana Ozana Jelescu, Ting Yin, Yujian Diao, Valerio Zerbi

Task-free functional connectivity in animal models provides an experimental framework to examine connectivity phenomena under controlled conditions and allows for comparisons with data modalities collected under invasive or terminal procedures. Currently, ...

2023

Neurite Exchange Imaging ((NEXI): A minimal model of diffusion in gray matter with inter-compartment water exchange

Ileana Ozana Jelescu, Alexandre Jean François Marie De Skowronski

Biophysical models of diffusion in white matter have been center-stage over the past two decades and are essentially based on what is now commonly referred to as the "Standard Model" (SM) of non-exchanging anisotropic compartments with Gaussian diffusion. ...

ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE2022

Gd3+-Functionalized Lithium Niobate Nanoparticles for Dual Multiphoton and Magnetic Resonance Bioimaging

Sandrine Gerber, Anne-Sophie Chauvin, Luigi Bonacina, Marinella Mazzanti, Katarzyna Pierzchala, Raphaël Jovita De Matos, Dario Diviani, Jérémy Vuilleumier, Adrian Stefan Gheata, Ileana Ozana Jelescu, Laura Camille Louise Nicolle, Fiorella Lucarini

Harmonic nanoparticles (HNPs) have emerged as appealing exogenous probes for optical bioimaging due to their distinctive features such as long-term photostability and spectral flexibility, allowing multiphoton excitation in the classical (NIR-I) and extend ...

2022

Wireless closed-loop optogenetics across the entire dorsoventral spinal cord in mice

Léonie Asboth, Jérôme Gandar, Frédéric Pierre Gérald Michoud, Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine, Quentin Barraud, Noaf Salah Ali Alwahab, Ivan Furfaro, Ileana Ozana Jelescu, Andreas Rowald, Claudia Kathe, Valentina Marie Paggi, Jimmy James Ravier, Kyungjin Kim, Thomas Haynes Hutson

Optoelectronic systems can exert precise control over targeted neurons and pathways throughout the brain in untethered animals, but similar technologies for the spinal cord are not well established. In the present study, we describe a system for ultrafast, ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Brain connectivity and metacognition in persons with subjective cognitive decline (COSCODE): rationale and study design

Ileana Ozana Jelescu

Background Subjective cognitive decline (SCD) is the subjective perception of a decline in memory and/or other cognitive functions in the absence of objective evidence. Some SCD individuals however may suffer from very early stages of neurodegenerative dis ...

2021

Neuroprosthetic baroreflex controls haemodynamics after spinal cord injury

Jérôme Gandar, Giuseppe Schiavone, Nicolas Vachicouras, Florian Dylan Fallegger, Salif Axel Komi, Stéphanie Lacour, Arnaud Bichat, Grégoire Courtine, Quentin Barraud, Kay Alexander Bartholdi, Eduardo Martin Moraud, Marco Capogrosso, Mark Andrew Anderson, Fabien Bertrand Paul Wagner, Robin Jonathan Demesmaeker, Ileana Ozana Jelescu, Andreas Rowald, Newton Cho, Jocelyne Bloch, Claudia Kathe, Nicholas David James, Jordan Squair, Laura Ann McCracken, Matthieu Pierre Gautier, Loïs Thomas Romain Mahe, Jimmy James Ravier

Spinal cord injury (SCI) induces haemodynamic instability that threatens survival(1-3), impairs neurological recovery(4,5), increases the risk of cardiovascular disease(6,7), and reduces quality of life(8,9). Haemodynamic instability in this context is due ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

PIRACY: An Optimized Pipeline for Functional Connectivity Analysis in the Rat Brain

Rolf Gruetter, Ileana Ozana Jelescu, Ting Yin, Yujian Diao

Resting state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) is a widespread and powerful tool for investigating functional connectivity (FC) and brain disorders. However, FC analysis can be seriously affected by random and structured noise from non-neural sources, such as phys ...

2021

Contribution of preclinical MRI to responsible animal research: living up to the 3R principle

Cornelius Faber, Cristina Barca, Ileana Ozana Jelescu

2021

Synchronous nonmonotonic changes in functional connectivity and white matter integrity in a rat model of sporadic Alzheimer's disease

Bernard Lanz, Carole Poitry-Yamate, Katarzyna Pierzchala, Ileana Ozana Jelescu, Ting Yin, Yujian Diao

Brain glucose hypometabolism has been singled out as an important contributor and possibly main trigger to Alzheimer's disease (AD). Intracerebroventricular injections of streptozotocin (icv-STZ) cause brain glucose hypometabolism without systemic diabetes ...

2020

Diffusion MRI biomarkers of white matter microstructure vary nonmonotonically with increasing cerebral amyloid deposition

Ileana Ozana Jelescu

Beta amyloid (A beta) accumulation is the earliest pathological marker of Alzheimer's disease (AD), but early AD pathology also affects white matter (WM) integrity. We performed a cross-sectional study including 44 subjects (23 healthy controls and 21 mild ...

2020

MP-PCA denoising dramatically improves SNR in large-sized MRS data: an illustration in diffusion-weighted MRS

Cristina Ramona Cudalbu, Ileana Ozana Jelescu

2020

Challenges for biophysical modeling of microstructure

Ileana Ozana Jelescu

The biophysical modeling efforts in diffusion MRI have grown considerably over the past 25 years. In this review, we dwell on the various challenges along the journey of bringing a biophysical model from initial design to clinical implementation, identifyi ...

2020

Multi-slice passband bSSFP for human and rodent fMRI at ultra-high field

Rolf Gruetter, Rodrigo Araujo Fraga Da Silva, Olivier Benoit Thomas Reynaud, Ileana Ozana Jelescu

Balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP) can be used as an alternative to gradient-echo (GE) EPI for BOLD functional MRI when image distortions and signal drop-outs are severe such as at ultra-high field. However, 3D-bSSFP acquisitions have distinct d ...

Academic Press Inc - Elsevier Science2019

Rotationally-invariant mapping of scalar and orientational metrics of neuronal microstructure with diffusion MRI

Ileana Ozana Jelescu

2018

Voxel size matters: big voxels are required to generate realistic extra-axonal dMRI signals from Monte Carlo simulations

Jean-Philippe Thiran, David Paul Roger Romascano, Alessandro Daducci, Muhamed Barakovic, Ileana Ozana Jelescu, Jonathan Rafael Patino Lopez, Tim Bjørn Dyrby

2018