Neighborhood Resolved Fiber Orientation Distributions (NRFOD) in Automatic Labeling of White Matter Fiber Pathways

For the past two decades, the technique of Diffusion MRI has been providing ways to reconstruct patient-specific white matter fiber pathways (Basser et  al., 1994; LeBihan et al., 2001; Lazar et al., 2003). Diffusion MRI probes neural circuitry of the in-vivo brain by an indirect measurement of random diffusion-driven displacements of water molecules. The link between water diffusion and axonal orientation and integrity makes probing of the WM t issue structure possible (Wieshmann et al., 1999; Coremans et al., 1994).

Source: Medical Image Analysis - February 27, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Devran Ugurlu, Zeynep Firat, Ugur Ture, Gozde Unal Source Type: research