Despite recent improvements in diffusion-weighted imaging, spinal cord tractography is not
used in routine clinical practice because of difficulties in reconstructing tractograms, with a …

The spinal cord (SC) is a dense network of billions of fibers in a small volume surrounded by
bones that makes tractography difficult to perform. We aim to provide a review collecting all …

Purpose To assess the impact of a different distortion correction (DC) method and patient
geometry (sagittal balance) on the quality of spinal cord tractography rendering according to …

Purpose Neuroimaging provides great utility in complex spinal surgeries, particularly when
anatomical geometry is distorted by pathology (tumour, degeneration, etc.). Spinal cord MRI …

Introduction We employed a diffusion-tensor (DT) imaging technique involving a single-shot
echo-planar sequence in combination with parallel imaging for tractography of the lower …

This study describes a new technique for Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) that acquires axial
(transverse) images of the cervical spinal cord. The DTI images depict axonal fiber …

Diffusion tensor imaging has been used in a number of spinal cord studies, but severe
distortions caused by susceptibility induced field inhomogeneities limit its applicability to …

In contrast to commonly used approaches to improve data quality in diffusion weighted
imaging, position-orientation adaptive smoothing (POAS) provides an edge-preserving post …

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 …

BACKGROUND: Recent studies have demonstrated diffusion tensor imaging tractography of
cranial nerves (CNs). Spatial and angular resolution, however, is limited with this modality. A …