Resolving crossings in the corticospinal tract by two-tensor streamline tractography: Method and clinical assessment using fMRI

NeuroImage

Volumn 47, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2009, Pages

  Qazi, Arish A ^a,b   Radmanesh, Alireza ^a   O'Donnell, Lauren ^a   Kindlmann, Gordon ^a   Peled, Sharon ^a   Whalen, Stephen ^a   Westin, Carl Fredrik ^a   Golby, Alexandra J ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Corticospinal tract; Crossing fibers; Diffusion tensor imaging; Two tensor tractography

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; WHITE MATTER;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; PROBABILITY; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS;

EID: 67651151169     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.06.034     Document Type: Article

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