Diffusion tensor imaging and optimized fiber tracking in glioma patients: Histopathologic evaluation of tumor-invaded white matter structures

NeuroImage

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 949-956

  Stadlbauer, Andreas ^a,b   Nimsky, Christopher ^a   Buslei, Rolf ^a   Salomonowitz, Erich ^b   Hammen, Thilo ^a   Buchfelder, Michael ^a   Moser, Ewald ^c   Ernst Stecken, Antje ^a   Ganslandt, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Landesklinikum St Poelten ^*  (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Brain tumor; Diffusion tensor imaging; Evidence based medicine; Fiber tracking; Glioma; Histopathology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INHIBITION; CANCER INVASION; CELL LABELING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FIBER ASSIGNMENT BY CONTINUOUS TRACKING METHOD; FIBER TRACKING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPHY; GLIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; MALE; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; NERVE TRACT; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACT TURNING ANGLE; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33846078702     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.08.051     Document Type: Article

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