Paper Info
Title
White Matter Fiber Tracking Computation Based on Diffusion Tensor Imaging for Clinical Applications.
Abstract
Fiber tracking allows the in vivo reconstruction of human brain white matter fiber trajectories based on magnetic resonance diffusion tensor imaging (MR-DTI), but its application in the clinical routine is still in its infancy. In this study, we present a new software for fiber tracking, developed on top of a general-purpose DICOM (digital imaging and communications in medicine) framework, which can be easily integrated into existing picture archiving and communication system (PACS) of radiological institutions. Images combining anatomical information and the localization of different fiber tract trajectories can be encoded and exported in DICOM and Analyze formats, which are valuable resources in the clinical applications of this method. Fiber tracking was implemented based on existing line propagation algorithms, but it includes a heuristic for fiber crossings in the case of disk-shaped diffusion tensors. We successfully performed fiber tracking on MR-DTI data sets from 26 patients with different types of brain lesions affecting the corticospinal tracts. In all cases, the trajectories of the central spinal tract (pyramidal tract) were reconstructed and could be applied at the planning phase of the surgery as well as in intraoperative neuronavigation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/s10278-006-0773-7
J. Digital Imaging
Keywords
DocType
Volume
magnetic resonance,anisotropy,diffusion tensor,algorithms,brain mapping,picture archiving and communication system
Journal
20
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0897-1889
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.51
1
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Paulo R Dellani1263.50
Martin Glaser230.85
Paulo Roberto Wille330.85
Goran Vucurevic4445.72
Axel T. Stadie571.73
Thomas Bauermann672.11
Andrei Tropine730.51
Axel Perneczky831.19
Aldo von Wangenheim920949.44
Peter Stoeter107410.09