Diffusion tensor imaging demonstrates deviation of fibres in normal appearing white matter adjacent to a brain tumour

Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 501-503

  Wieshmann, U C ^a   Symms, M R ^a   Parker, G J M ^b   Clark, C A ^b   Lemieux, L ^a   Barker, G J ^b   Shorvon, S D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NMR Research Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain tumours; Diffusion tensor imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; IMAGING; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0034055775     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.68.4.501     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Kuhn MJ, Johnson KA, Davis KR. Wallerian degeneration: evaluation with MR imaging. Radiology 1988;168:199-202.
2. Hajnal JV, De Coene B, Lewis PD, et al. High signal regions in normal white matter shown by heavily T2-weighted CSF nulled IR sequences. J Comput Assist Tomogr 1992;16:506-13.
3. Moseley ME, Cohen Y, Kucharczyk J, et al. Diffusion weighted MR imaging of anisotropic water diffusion in cat central nervous system. Radiology 1990;176:439-45.
4. Basser PJ, Pierpaoli C. Microstructural and physiological features of tissues elucidated by quantitative-diffusion-tensor MRI. J Magn Reson B 1996;111:209-19.
5. Hsu EW, Muzikant AL, Matulevicius SA, et al. Magnetic resonance myocardial fiber-orientation mapping with direct histological correlation. Am J Physiol 1998;274: H1627-34.
6. Basser PJ, Mattiello J, LeBihan D. Estimation of the effective self-diffusion-tensor from the NMR spin echo. J Magn Reson B 1994;103:247-54.
7. Woods RP, Cherry SR, Mazziotta JC. Rapid automated algorithm for aligning and reslicing PET images. J Comput Assist Tomogr 1992;16:620-33.
8. Talairach J, Tournoux P. Referentially oriented cerebral MRI anatomy. Stuttgart: Georg Thieme Verlag, 1993.
9. Parker GJM, Werring DJ, Barker GJ, et al. Multiplanar combined scalar and vector display for diffusion tensor information. Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 7th scientific meeting. Berkeley, CA: ISMRM, 1999:2165.
10. Beaulieu C, Allen PS. Determinants of anisotropic water diffusion in nerves. Magn Reson Med 1994;31:394-400.
11. Werring DJ, Clark CA, Barker GJ, et al. Diffusion tensor imaging of lesions and normal-appearing white matter in multiple sclerosis. Neurology 1999;52:1626-32.
12. Alexander AL, Burr RB, McDonald J, et al. A technique for functional localization of the sensory motor cortex with diffusion anisotropy. Proceedings of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 7th scientific meeting. Berkeley, CA: ISMRM, 1999:326.
13. Douek P, Turner R, Pekar J, et al. MR color mapping of myelin fiber orientation. J Comput Assist Tomogr 1991;15: 923-9.
14. Makris N, Worth AJ, Sorensen AG, et al. Morphometry of in vivo human white matter association pathways with diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging. Ann Neurol 1997;42:951-62.
15. Peled S, Gudbjartsson H, Westin CF, et al. Magnetic resonance imaging shows orientation and symmetry of white matter tracts. Brain Res 1998;780:27-33.
16. Mori S, Crain BJ, Chacko VP, et al. Three-dimensional tracking of axonal projections in the brain by magnetic resonance imaging. Ann Neurol 1999;45:265-9.