Diffusion MRI tractography for neurosurgery: the basics, current state, technical reliability and challenges

JYM Yang, CH Yeh, C Poupon… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) tractography is currently the only imaging
technique that allows for non-invasive delineation and visualisation of white matter (WM) …

White matter fiber tractography: why we need to move beyond DTI

S Farquharson, JD Tournier, F Calamante… - Journal of …, 2013 - thejns.org
Object Diffusion-based MRI tractography is an imaging tool increasingly used in
neurosurgical procedures to generate 3D maps of white matter pathways as an aid to …

Diffusion MR tractography as a tool for surgical planning

J Berman - Magnetic resonance imaging clinics of North America, 2009 - Elsevier
Diffusion MR tractography has rapidly become an important clinical tool that can delineate
functionally important white matter tracts for surgical planning. One of the goals of brain …

Challenges in diffusion MRI tractography–Lessons learned from international benchmark competitions

KG Schilling, A Daducci, K Maier-Hein… - Magnetic resonance …, 2019 - Elsevier
Diffusion MRI (dMRI) fiber tractography has become a pillar of the neuroimaging community
due to its ability to noninvasively map the structural connectivity of the brain. Despite …

[HTML][HTML] Quantitative mapping of the brain's structural connectivity using diffusion MRI tractography: A review

F Zhang, A Daducci, Y He, S Schiavi, C Seguin… - Neuroimage, 2022 - Elsevier
Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) tractography is an advanced imaging
technique that enables in vivo reconstruction of the brain's white matter connections at …

Diffusion MRI fiber tractography of the brain

B Jeurissen, M Descoteaux, S Mori… - NMR in …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The ability of fiber tractography to delineate non‐invasively the white matter fiber pathways
of the brain raises possibilities for clinical applications and offers enormous potential for …

Overcoming challenges of cranial nerve tractography: a targeted review

T Jacquesson, C Frindel, G Kocevar, M Berhouma… - …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND Diffusion imaging tractography caught the attention of the scientific
community by describing the white matter architecture in vivo and noninvasively, but its …

The role of diffusion tractography in refining glial tumor resection

DC Vanderweyen, G Theaud, J Sidhu… - Brain Structure and …, 2020 - Springer
Primary brain tumors are notoriously hard to resect surgically. Due to their infiltrative nature,
finding the optimal resection boundary without damaging healthy tissue can be challenging …

Magnetic resonance imaging diffusion tensor tractography: evaluation of anatomic accuracy of different fiber tracking software packages

GC Feigl, W Hiergeist, C Fellner, KMM Schebesch… - World neurosurgery, 2014 - Elsevier
Background Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI)–based tractography has become an integral part
of preoperative diagnostic imaging in many neurosurgical centers, and other nonsurgical …

Quantitative evaluation of 10 tractography algorithms on a realistic diffusion MR phantom

P Fillard, M Descoteaux, A Goh, S Gouttard… - Neuroimage, 2011 - Elsevier
As it provides the only method for mapping white matter fibers in vivo, diffusion MRI
tractography is gaining importance in clinical and neuroscience research. However, despite …