Ex vivo diffusion MRI of the human brain: Technical challenges and recent advances

This review discusses ex vivo diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) as an important research tool for neuroanatomical investigations and the validation of in vivo dMRI techniques, with a focus on the human brain. We review the challenges posed by the properties of post‐mortem tissue, and discuss state‐of‐the‐art tissue preparation methods and recent advances in pulse sequences and acquisition techniques to tackle these. We then review...