Case study: reconstruction, visualization and quantification of neuronal fiber pathways

Author

Ding, Zhaohua ; Gore, John C. ; Anderson, Adam W.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Diagnostic Radiol., Yale Univ. Sch. of Med., New Haven, CT, USA

fYear

0

fDate

0-0 0

Firstpage

453

Lastpage

588

Abstract

It is of significant interest for neurological studies to determine and visualize neuronal fiber pathways in the human brain. By exploiting the capability of diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging to detect local orientations of neuronal fibers, we have developed a system of algorithms to reconstruct, visualize and quantify neuronal fiber pathways in vivo. Illustrative results show that the system is a promising tool for visual analysis of fiber connectivity and quantitative studies of neuronal fibers.

Keywords

biomedical MRI; data visualisation; image reconstruction; neural nets; diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging; fiber connectivity; human brain; local orientations; neurological studies; neuronal fiber pathways quantification; neuronal fiber pathways reconstruction; neuronal fiber pathways visualization; quantitative studies; visual analysis; Biomedical imaging; Computer aided software engineering; Diffusion tensor imaging; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Image reconstruction; In vivo; Medical diagnostic imaging; Radiology; Tensile stress; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visualization, 2001. VIS '01. Proceedings

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7201-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VISUAL.2001.964549

Filename

964549