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Intraoperative Neuronavigation von Hirntumoren unter Einschluss des Tractus corticospinalis mit Hilfe von Diffusion Tensor Imaging und Fiber Tracking
Institut für Neuroradiologie Universitätsklinik 55101 Mainz Deutschland
Clinical Neuroradiology (impact factor:
1.09).
11/2004;
14(4):244-251.
DOI:10.1007/s00062-004-5396-0
pp.244-251
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Article: White matter fiber tracking computation based on diffusion tensor imaging for clinical applications.
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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.Journal of Digital Imaging 04/2007; 20(1):88-97. · 1.25 Impact Factor
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Keywords
13 patients
21 patients
allen 13 Fllen war
corticospinal tract
corticospinal tracts
diffusion tensor imaging
dort herabgesetzte fraktionale Anisotropie
Durch Integration des Fiber Tracking
ein neurochirurgisches Navigationssystem eingespeist
Eine positive Antwort auf
five patients
high-resolution three-dimensional
Patienten und Methodik
Position des Gyrus praecentralis
precentral cortex
Richtung der Haupteigenvektoren auch ber Faserkreuzungen hinweg verfolgen
stimulation position
Tensorenfelder berechnet und
tract position
virtual tracts