Diffusion imaging of brain tumors

SE Maier, Y Sun, RV Mulkern - NMR in biomedicine, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
MRI offers a tremendous armamentarium of different methods that can be employed in brain
tumor characterization. MR diffusion imaging has become a widely accepted method to …

Clinical application of motor pathway map** using diffusion tensor imaging tractography and intraoperative direct subcortical stimulation in cerebral glioma surgery …

FP Zhu, JS Wu, YY Song, CJ Yao, DX Zhuang… - …, 2012 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND: Glioma surgery in eloquent areas remains a challenge because of the risk
of postoperative motor deficits. OBJECTIVE: To prospectively evaluate the efficiency of using …

Comparison of diffusion tensor‐based tractography and quantified brain atrophy for analyzing demyelination and axonal loss in MS

F Fink, J Klein, M Lanz, T Mitrovics… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We combined diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) measures of the corpus callosum (CC) and the
superior longitudinal fascicle (SLF) with calculation of brain atrophy in 53 patients with …

Electrophysiologic validation of diffusion tensor imaging tractography during deep brain stimulation surgery

VA Coenen, C Jenkner, CR Honey… - American Journal of …, 2016 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Diffusion tensor imaging fiber tractography–assisted
planning of deep brain stimulation is an emerging technology. We investigated its accuracy …

Uncertainty visualization in HARDI based on ensembles of ODFs

F Jiao, JM Phillips, Y Gur… - 2012 IEEE Pacific …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a new and accurate technique for uncertainty analysis and
uncertainty visualization based on fiber orientation distribution function (ODF) glyphs …

A moveable 3-Tesla intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging system

MJ Lang, JJ Kelly, GR Sutherland - Operative Neurosurgery, 2011 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND: Based on success with a prototype 1.5 T intraoperative magnetic
resonance imaging (iMRI) system and the desire for increased signal-to-noise ratio, along …

Segmentation of fiber tracts based on an accuracy analysis on diffusion tensor software phantoms

S Barbieri, MHA Bauer, J Klein, C Nimsky, HK Hahn - Neuroimage, 2011 - Elsevier
Due to its unique sensitivity to tissue microstructure, one of the primary applications of
diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging is the reconstruction of neural fiber …

Reconstruction of white matter tracts via repeated deterministic streamline tracking–initial experience

MHA Bauer, D Kuhnt, S Barbieri, J Klein, A Becker… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) and fiber tractography are established methods to
reconstruct major white matter tracts in the human brain in-vivo. Particularly in the context of …

DTI segmentation via the combined analysis of connectivity maps and tensor distances

S Barbieri, MHA Bauer, J Klein, J Moltz, C Nimsky… - Neuroimage, 2012 - Elsevier
We describe a novel approach to extract the neural tracts of interest from a diffusion tensor
image (DTI). Compared to standard streamline tractography, existing probabilistic methods …

Automatic planning of MR-guided transcranial focused ultrasound treatment for essential tremor

J Klein, A Gerken, N Agethen, S Rothlübbers… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Transcranial focused ultrasound therapy (tcFUS) offers precise thermal ablation
for treating Parkinson's disease and essential tremor. However, the manual fine-tuning of …