Along the flow direction, the nematic order parameter near the skin remains uniform, while the nematic order parameter near the core first decreases and then remains low . Here, we observed similar patterns in our extrudate and deadstop samples, with a low sub-micron WOP near the core, and a higher WOP near the skin. We did not observe the lowering of WOP near the core in deadstop samples along the flow direction, since we are already near the lowest value, but this behaviour in SANS can be explained by the difference in the targeted length scale. Another recent study used MRI to identify an anisotropic micron-mm scale lamellar exterior region, the size of which increases further along the cooling die . We observe a similar increase in the size of sub-micron anisotropic regions along the cooling die with RFT (Fig. .).