Lu Meng
College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, China.
Biomed Mater Eng. 2015;26 Suppl 1:S991-1000. doi: 10.3233/BME-151394.
Diffusion tensor imaging allows for the non-invasive in vivo mapping of the brain tractography. However, fiber bundles have complex structures such as fiber crossings, fiber branchings and fibers with large curvatures that tensor imaging (DTI) cannot accurately handle. This study presents a novel brain white matter tractography method using Q-ball imaging as the data source instead of DTI, because QBI can provide accurate information about multiple fiber crossings and branchings in a single voxel using an orientation distribution function (ODF). The presented method also uses graph theory to construct the Bayesian model-based graph, so that the fiber tracking between two voxels can be represented as the shortest path in a graph. Our experiment showed that our new method can accurately handle brain white matter fiber crossings and branchings, and reconstruct brain tractograhpy both in phantom data and real brain data.
扩散张量成像能够对脑纤维束成像进行无创活体映射。然而,纤维束具有复杂的结构,如纤维交叉、纤维分支以及大曲率纤维,而张量成像(DTI)无法准确处理这些情况。本研究提出了一种新颖的脑白质纤维束成像方法,该方法使用Q球成像作为数据源而非DTI,因为Q球成像可以利用方向分布函数(ODF)在单个体素中提供关于多个纤维交叉和分支的准确信息。所提出的方法还使用图论构建基于贝叶斯模型的图,从而使两个体素之间的纤维追踪能够表示为图中的最短路径。我们的实验表明,我们的新方法能够准确处理脑白质纤维交叉和分支,并在体模数据和真实脑数据中重建脑纤维束成像。