Imaging of postthalamic visual fiber tracts by anisotropic diffusion weighted MRI and diffusion tensor imaging: principles and applications

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• 作者：Reinges ; Marcus H.T. ; Schoth ; Felix ; Coenen ; Volker A. ; Krings ; Timo
• 关键词：Optic radiation ; Diffusion tensor imaging ; Anisotropic DWI ; Clinical applications ; Presurgical planning ; fMRI
• 刊名：European Journal of Radiology
• 出版年：2004
• 出版时间：February, 2004
• 年：2004
• 卷：49
• 期：2
• 页码：91-104
• 全文大小：1.28 M

文摘

Diffusion weighted MRI offers the possibility to study the course of the cerebral white matter tracts. In the present manuscript, the basics, the technique and the limitations of diffusion tensor imaging and anisotropic diffusion weighted MRI are presented and their applications in various neurological and neurosurgical diseases are discussed with special emphasis on the visual system. A special focus is laid on the combination of fiber tract imaging, anatomical imaging and functional MRI for presurgical planning and intraoperative neuronavigation of lesions near the visual system.