Original title: HARDI dMRI Imaging Of Cervical Spinal Cord
Authors: Zimolka, Jakub ; Piskořová, Zuzana ; Svátková, Alena ; Bednařík, Petr ; Horák, Tomáš ; Hok, Pavel
Document type: Papers
Language: eng
Publisher: Vysoké učení technické v Brně, Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií
Abstract: Our work established an automatic pipeline of cervical spinal cord high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) data. Our pipeline that projects the diffusion results into high-resolution anatomical space utilizes Spinal Cord Toolbox (SCT), FSL libraries, in-house developed scripts and TORQUE-based batch system for grid computational engines. As one of the first, we are investigating multiple-direction models for human in-vivo spinal cord HARDI dMRI data. The visually inspected preliminary results indicate that significant 2nd directions are observable as expected based on previously presented mainly animal models. Our work provides an essential clinical tool that will allow quantifying spinal cord and dorsal spinal roots alterations in various neurological diseases in vivo.
Keywords: anisotropic diffusion; ball and stick model; diffusion MRI; diffusion tensor imaging; dMRI; DTI; FSL; HARDI; segmentation; Spinal Cord Toolbox
Host item entry: Proceedings of the 23st Conference STUDENT EEICT 2017, ISBN 978-80-214-5496-5

Institution: Brno University of Technology (web)
Document availability information: Fulltext is available in the Brno University of Technology Digital Library.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/11012/187115

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