White matter fiber tractography: Why we need to move beyond DTI

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1367-1377

  Farquharson, Shawna ^a,b,c,e   Tournier, J Donald ^a,b   Calamante, Fernando ^a,b   Fabinyi, Gavin ^d   Schneider Kolsky, Michal ^c   Jackson, Graeme D ^a,b   Connelly, Alan ^a,b  

^a FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^e Melbourne Brain Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

Constrained spherical deconvolution; Diagnostic and operative techniques; Diffusion tensor imaging; Diffusion weighted imaging; Fiber tracking; Neurosurgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTRAINED SPHERICAL DECONVOLUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHANTOM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SIMULATION; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGERY; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878687124     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2013.2.JNS121294     Document Type: Article

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