Advanced diffusion MRI fiber tracking in neurosurgical and neurodegenerative disorders and neuroanatomical studies: A review

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease

Volumn 1842, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2286-2297

  Abhinav, Kumar ^a   Yeh, Fang Cheng ^b   Pathak, Sudhir ^c   Suski, Valerie ^a   Lacomis, David ^a   Friedlander, Robert M ^a   Fernandez Miranda, Juan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion spectrum imaging (DSI); Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); Fiber tracking; High angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI); Intracranial mass lesion; Neurodegeneration

Indexed keywords

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANISOTROPY; ARCUATE FASCICULUS; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN TUMOR; CAPSULA INTERNA; CLAUSTRUM; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MEDIAL LONGITUDINAL FASCICULUS; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE TRACT; NEUROANATOMY; NEURONAVIGATION; NEUROSURGERY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; REVIEW; SKELETON; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84907977990     PISSN: 09254439     EISSN: 1879260X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2014.08.002     Document Type: Review

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