Double Diffusion Encoding Prevents Degeneracy in Parameter Estimation of Biophysical Models in Diffusion MRI

1Centre for Computational Imaging & Simulation Technologies in Biomedicine (CISTIB) and Leeds Institute for Cardiac and MetabolicMedicine (LICAMM), School of Computing & School ofMedicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK 2CISTIB, Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK 3Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience (CFIN) andMINDLab, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark 4Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark 5Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), Cardiff University, UK 6School of Psychology, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia.

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