Reconstructing micrometer-scale fiber pathways in the brain: Multi-contrast optical coherence tomography based tractography

NeuroImage

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 984-992

  Wang, Hui ^a   Black, Adam J ^a   Zhu, Junfeng ^a   Stigen, Tyler W ^a   Al Qaisi, Muhammad K ^a   Netoff, Theoden I ^a   Abosch, Aviva ^b   Akkin, Taner ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain connectivity; Brain imaging; Gray matter; Optical coherence tomography; Polarization; Tractography; White matter

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; BRAIN; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN SIZE; BRIGHT FIELD MICROSCOPY; CAPSULA INTERNA; COLOR; EN FACE REFLECTIVITY MAP; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPAL FIMBRIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MESENCEPHALON; MULTICONTRAST OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; MYELIN SHEATH; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER TRACT; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TRACT; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHASE RETARDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RAT; REFLECTIVITY IMAGE; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STRIA TERMINALIS; THALAMUS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRACTOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHITE MATTER; ZONA INCERTA;

ALGORITHMS; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 80052620295     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.07.005     Document Type: Article

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