Sentences with word «tractography»

«Diffusion tensor MR tractography effective as quantitative tool, treatment marker response.»

Results of tractography of either method were presented to the surgeon for pre-operative planning and integrated into the navigation system and its impact was rated using a questionnaire.

Selective effects of aging on brain white matter microstructure: A diffusion tensor imaging tractography study

DTI, also called tractography, is not performed in routine medical practice, but the researchers suggest that physicians should start to consider potential brain damage as they treat patients with high blood pressure.

Stimulation spots evoking muscle potentials (MEP) closest to the tumor were imported into the fiber tracking software and set as seed points for tractography.

Tractography results facilitated intra-operative orientation and electrical stimulation in 28 of 50 (56 %) patients.

Produced by a technique called fiber tractography, the image helped doctors at Sherbrooke University Hospital Center in Quebec avoid cutting vital circuitry during brain surgery: The reddest nerve fibers were those most likely to be severed by incisions to remove the tumor.

Variability and anatomical specificity of the orbitofrontothalamic fibers of passage in the ventral capsule / ventral striatum (VC / VS): precision care for patient - specific tractography - guided targeting of deep brain stimulation (DBS) in obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) Makris N, Rathi Y, Mouradian P, Bonmassar G, Papadimitriou G, Ing WI, Yeterian EH, Kubicki M, Eskandar EN, Wald LL, Fan Q, Nummenmaa A, Widge AS, Dougherty DD.

The need for a systematic approach to tractography validation and for a framework to perform statistical model testing in individual brains has been claimed (Pestilli Nature: Scientific Data 2015).

First, I will present new framework for performing tractography evaluation and statistical inferecne on the network of brain connections (Pestilli et al., Nature Methods 2014).

Magnetic resonance diffusion imaging and computational tractography are the only technologies that enable neuroscientists to measure white matter in the living human brain.

Whereas there are many impressive findings, it is widely agreed that there is an urgent need to keep developing and improving tractography methods.

«Diffusion tensor MR tractography may function as a novel quantitative tool and marker of treatment response,» said study coauthor Jennifer W. Uyeda, MD, Brigham and Women's Hospital.

WEDEEN, V. J., WANG, R. P., SCHMAHMANN, J. D., BENNER, T., TSENG, W. Y., DAI, G., PANDYA, D. N., HAGMANN, P., D'ARCEUIL, H. & DE CRESPIGNY, A. J. (2008) Diffusion spectrum magnetic resonance imaging (DSI) tractography of crossing fibers.

Brain cells communicate with each other through these nerve fibers, which have been visualised using diffusion imaging tractography.

Preliminary results of a study of patients with prostate cancer show that MR tractography may be a reliable quantitative imaging biomarker to assess prostate cancer treatment response to androgen deprivation and radiation therapy, according to a team of researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Navigated TMS, fMRI, diffusion - tensor (DT)- tractography and MEG were utilized to pre-operatively localize motor cortical areas in the work - up for epilepsy surgery.

In the other patient, navigated TMS indicated abnormal ipsilateral hand motor cortex localization and confirmed the functionality of aberrant motor cortical representations of the left foot also indicated by fMRI and DT - tractography.