Fiber tracking in the cervical spine and inferior brain regions with reversed gradient diffusion tensor imaging. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Diffusion tensor echo planar magnetic resonance imaging of the inferior brain regions and the spinal cord suffers from tissue-air and tissue-bone interfaces, which cause severe susceptibility-induced artifacts. These artifacts consist of image distortions in the phase encode direction and also affect signal intensity. To correct for these distortions, we used the reversed gradient method. We find that most in-plane voxel displacements in the inferior brain regions and the cervical spine can be corrected, yielding a good match of white matter fiber tracts with anatomical reference images. Furthermore, uninterrupted white matter fiber tracts going from the cervical spine up to cortical areas, derived from data acquired in a single acquisition, are presented.

publication date

  • January 27, 2006

Research

keywords

  • Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Nerve Fibers, Myelinated
  • Spinal Cord

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 33645048500

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.mri.2005.12.007

PubMed ID

  • 16563951

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 24

issue

  • 3