Diffusion tractography: methods, validation and applications in patients with neurosurgical lesions.

[1]  C. Beaulieu,et al.  The basis of anisotropic water diffusion in the nervous system – a technical review , 2002, NMR in biomedicine.

[2]  T. Grabowski,et al.  Disconnection's renaissance takes shape: Formal incorporation in group-level lesion studies , 2008, Cortex.

[3]  P. Bartolomeo,et al.  White matter (dis)connections and gray matter (dys)functions in visual neglect: Gaining insights into the brain networks of spatial awareness , 2008, Cortex.

[4]  C. Pierpaoli,et al.  Visualizing and characterizing white matter fiber structure and architecture in the human pyramidal tract using diffusion tensor MRI. , 1999, Magnetic resonance imaging.

[5]  C. Liston,et al.  Fiber tracking using magnetic resonance diffusion tensor imaging and its applications to human brain development. , 2003, Mental retardation and developmental disabilities research reviews.

[6]  Takashi Hanakawa,et al.  Diffusion-tensor fiber tractography: intraindividual comparison of 3.0-T and 1.5-T MR imaging. , 2006, Radiology.

[7]  Denis Le Bihan,et al.  The ‘wet mind’: water and functional neuroimaging , 2007 .

[8]  K Togashi,et al.  Diffusion tensor fiber tractography of the optic radiation: analysis with 6-, 12-, 40-, and 81-directional motion-probing gradients, a preliminary study. , 2007, AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology.

[9]  S Pajevic,et al.  Color schemes to represent the orientation of anisotropic tissues from diffusion tensor data: Application to white matter fiber tract mapping in the human brain , 1999, Magnetic resonance in medicine.

[10]  Chris A Clark,et al.  White matter fiber tracking in patients with space-occupying lesions of the brain: a new technique for neurosurgical planning? , 2003, NeuroImage.

[11]  Christopher Nimsky,et al.  Intraoperative diffusion-tensor MR imaging: shifting of white matter tracts during neurosurgical procedures--initial experience. , 2005, Radiology.

[12]  J. Berman,et al.  Diffusion MR tractography as a tool for surgical planning. , 2009, Magnetic resonance imaging clinics of North America.

[13]  P. Basser,et al.  A simplified method to measure the diffusion tensor from seven MR images , 1998, Magnetic resonance in medicine.

[14]  John S. Duncan,et al.  Combined functional MRI and tractography to demonstrate the connectivity of the human primary motor cortex in vivo , 2003, NeuroImage.

[15]  Derek K. Jones,et al.  Virtual in Vivo Interactive Dissection of White Matter Fasciculi in the Human Brain , 2002, NeuroImage.

[16]  Talma Hendler,et al.  Characterization of displaced white matter by brain tumors using combined DTI and fMRI , 2006, NeuroImage.

[17]  Christine Delmaire,et al.  Comparison of diffusion tensor imaging tractography of language tracts and intraoperative subcortical stimulations. , 2010, Journal of neurosurgery.

[18]  M M Mesulam,et al.  Large‐scale neurocognitive networks and distributed processing for attention, language, and memory , 1990, Annals of neurology.

[19]  Christopher Nimsky,et al.  Preoperative and Intraoperative Diffusion Tensor Imaging-based Fiber Tracking in Glioma Surgery , 2005, Neurosurgery.

[20]  Katiuscia Sacco,et al.  Preoperative and intraoperative brain mapping for the resection of eloquent-area tumors. A prospective analysis of methodology, correlation, and usefulness based on clinical outcomes , 2010, Acta Neurochirurgica.

[21]  Susumu Mori,et al.  Fiber tracking: principles and strategies – a technical review , 2002, NMR in biomedicine.

[22]  C. Price,et al.  Disrupted temporal lobe connections in semantic dementia. , 1999 .

[23]  Giuseppe Iaria,et al.  Disconnection in prosopagnosia and face processing , 2008, Cortex.

[24]  D. Jacobson.  The localizing value of a quadrantanopia. , 1997, Archives of neurology.

[25]  P. Basser,et al.  In vivo fiber tractography using DT‐MRI data , 2000, Magnetic resonance in medicine.

[26]  H. Duffau.  Lessons from brain mapping in surgery for low-grade glioma: insights into associations between tumour and brain plasticity , 2005, The Lancet Neurology.

[27]  M. Catani,et al.  A diffusion tensor imaging tractography atlas for virtual in vivo dissections , 2008, Cortex.

[28]  Peter Boesiger,et al.  Impact of fMRI-guided advanced DTI fiber tracking techniques on their clinical applications in patients with brain tumors , 2009, Neuroradiology.

[29]  A. Hillis,et al.  Neural regions essential for distinct cognitive processes underlying picture naming. , 2007, Brain : a journal of neurology.

[30]  A. Field.  Diffusion tensor imaging at the crossroads: fiber tracking meets tissue characterization in brain tumors. , 2005, AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology.

[31]  T. Krings,et al.  Course of brain shift during microsurgical resection of supratentorial cerebral lesions: limits of conventional neuronavigation , 2004, Acta Neurochirurgica.

[32]  P Ferrari,et al.  Functional Activity within Brain Tumors: A Magnetic Source Imaging Study , 2001, Neurosurgery.

[33]  Kyung K Peck,et al.  Functional MRI in the Brain Tumor Patient , 2004, Topics in magnetic resonance imaging : TMRI.

[34]  H. Duffau,et al.  Does the left inferior longitudinal fasciculus play a role in language? A brain stimulation study. , 2007, Brain : a journal of neurology.

[35]  C. Papagno,et al.  INTRAOPERATIVE SUBCORTICAL LANGUAGETRACT MAPPING GUIDES SURGICAL REMOVALOF GLIOMAS INVOLVING SPEECH AREAS , 2007, Neurosurgery.

[36]  Peter Boesiger,et al.  Combining fMRI and DTI: A framework for exploring the limits of fMRI-guided DTI fiber tracking and for verifying DTI-based fiber tractography results , 2008, NeuroImage.

[37]  H. Nakase,et al.  Diffusion Tensor Tractography of the Meyer Loop in Cases of Temporal Lobe Resection for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: Correlation between Postsurgical Visual Field Defect and Anterior Limit of Meyer Loop on Tractography , 2008, American Journal of Neuroradiology.

[38]  M. Catani,et al.  The arcuate fasciculus and the disconnection theme in language and aphasia: History and current state , 2008, Cortex.

[39]  M. Kraut,et al.  Comparison of weakness progression in inclusion body myositis during treatment with methotrexate or placebo , 2002, Annals of neurology.

[40]  S. Dehaene,et al.  Pure alexia as a disconnection syndrome: New diffusion imaging evidence for an old concept , 2008, Cortex.

[41]  Karl J. Friston,et al.  Non-invasive mapping of corticofugal fibres from multiple motor areas--relevance to stroke recovery. , 2006, Brain : a journal of neurology.

[42]  Pratik Mukherjee,et al.  Diffusion-tensor imaging-guided tracking of fibers of the pyramidal tract combined with intraoperative cortical stimulation mapping in patients with gliomas. , 2004, Journal of neurosurgery.

[43]  Derek K. Jones,et al.  Occipito-temporal connections in the human brain. , 2003, Brain : a journal of neurology.

[44]  A. Schleicher,et al.  Mapping of Histologically Identified Long Fiber Tracts in Human Cerebral Hemispheres to the MRI Volume of a Reference Brain: Position and Spatial Variability of the Optic Radiation , 1999, NeuroImage.

[45]  David Gaffan,et al.  Medial temporal and prefrontal function: Recent behavioural disconnection studies in the macaque monkey , 2008, Cortex.

[46]  Pratik Mukherjee,et al.  Subcortical pathways serving cortical language sites: initial experience with diffusion tensor imaging fiber tracking combined with intraoperative language mapping , 2004, NeuroImage.

[47]  Hugues Duffau,et al.  New concepts in surgery of WHO grade II gliomas: functional brain mapping, connectionism and plasticity – a review , 2006, Journal of Neuro-Oncology.

[48]  Takashi Hanakawa,et al.  Clinical impact of integrated functional neuronavigation and subcortical electrical stimulation to preserve motor function during resection of brain tumors. , 2007, Journal of neurosurgery.

[49]  Giuseppe Scotti,et al.  Motor and language DTI Fiber Tracking combined with intraoperative subcortical mapping for surgical removal of gliomas , 2008, NeuroImage.

[50]  M. Berger,et al.  Minimalism through intraoperative functional mapping. , 1996, Clinical neurosurgery.

[51]  Christine Delmaire,et al.  Visualization of disconnection syndromes in humans , 2008, Cortex.

[52]  D. Poeppel,et al.  Dorsal and ventral streams: a framework for understanding aspects of the functional anatomy of language , 2004, Cognition.

[53]  Ying Mao,et al.  CLINICAL EVALUATION AND FOLLOW‐UP OUTCOME OF DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING‐BASED FUNCTIONAL NEURONAVIGATION: A PROSPECTIVE, CONTROLLED STUDY IN PATIENTS WITH GLIOMAS INVOLVING PYRAMIDAL TRACTS , 2007, Neurosurgery.

[54]  A. Paivio,et al.  Cognitive components of picture naming. , 1996, Psychological bulletin.

[55]  Albert L. Rhoton,et al.  Meyer’s Loop and the Optic Radiations in the Transsylvian Approach to the Mediobasal Temporal Lobe , 2006, Neurosurgery.

[56]  Volkmar Glauche,et al.  Ventral and dorsal pathways for language , 2008, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

[57]  A. Alexander,et al.  Diffusion tensor imaging of cerebral white matter: a pictorial review of physics, fiber tract anatomy, and tumor imaging patterns. , 2004, AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology.

[58]  Takashi Hanakawa,et al.  Corticospinal tract localization: integration of diffusion-tensor tractography at 3-T MR imaging with intraoperative white matter stimulation mapping--preliminary results. , 2006, Radiology.

[59]  Manabu Kinoshita,et al.  Fiber-tracking does not accurately estimate size of fiber bundle in pathological condition: initial neurosurgical experience using neuronavigation and subcortical white matter stimulation , 2005, NeuroImage.

[60]  Giuseppe Casaceli,et al.  Intraoperative use of diffusion tensor imaging fiber tractography and subcortical mapping for resection of gliomas: technical considerations. , 2010, Neurosurgical focus.

[61]  Talma Hendler,et al.  Delineating gray and white matter involvement in brain lesions: three-dimensional alignment of functional magnetic resonance and diffusion-tensor imaging. , 2003, Journal of neurosurgery.

[62]  A. Sorensen,et al.  Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging of brain tumors. , 2006, Magnetic resonance imaging clinics of North America.

[63]  P M Black,et al.  Brain tumors. Part 1. , 1991, The New England journal of medicine.

[64]  Khader M Hasan,et al.  Diffusion tensor eigenvector directional color imaging patterns in the evaluation of cerebral white matter tracts altered by tumor , 2004, Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI.

[65]  Yuichi Suzuki,et al.  Deficits in the left inferior longitudinal fasciculus results in impairments in object naming , 2010, Neurocase.

[66]  U. Ebeling,et al.  Neurosurgical topography of the optic radiation in the temporal lobe , 2005, Acta Neurochirurgica.

[67]  H. Duffau,et al.  Is the human left middle longitudinal fascicle essential for language? A brain electrostimulation study , 2011, Human brain mapping.

[68]  Oliver Ganslandt,et al.  Diffusion tensor imaging and optimized fiber tracking in glioma patients: Histopathologic evaluation of tumor-invaded white matter structures , 2007, NeuroImage.

[69]  Nathalie Tzourio-Mazoyer,et al.  New insights into the anatomo-functional connectivity of the semantic system: a study using cortico-subcortical electrostimulations. , 2005, Brain : a journal of neurology.

[70]  Kenji Ino,et al.  Combined use of tractography-integrated functional neuronavigation and direct fiber stimulation. , 2005, Journal of neurosurgery.

[71]  D. Le Bihan,et al.  Artifacts and pitfalls in diffusion MRI , 2006, Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI.

[72]  C. Nimsky,et al.  Quantification of, Visualization of, and Compensation for Brain Shift Using Intraoperative Magnetic Resonance Imaging , 2000, Neurosurgery.

[73]  P. V. van Zijl,et al.  Three‐dimensional tracking of axonal projections in the brain by magnetic resonance imaging , 1999, Annals of neurology.

[74]  Matthew P. G. Allin,et al.  Atlasing location, asymmetry and inter-subject variability of white matter tracts in the human brain with MR diffusion tractography , 2011, NeuroImage.

[75]  I. Berry,et al.  Methodological and Technical Issues for Integrating Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data in a Neuronavigational System , 2001, Neurosurgery.

[76]  P. Grenier,et al.  MR imaging of intravoxel incoherent motions: application to diffusion and perfusion in neurologic disorders. , 1986, Radiology.

[77]  M. Raichle,et al.  Tracking neuronal fiber pathways in the living human brain. , 1999, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

[78]  Daniel Nilsson,et al.  Intersubject variability in the anterior extent of the optic radiation assessed by tractography , 2007, Epilepsy Research.

[79]  Christopher Nimsky,et al.  Prediction of visual field deficits by diffusion tensor imaging in temporal lobe epilepsy surgery , 2009, NeuroImage.

[80]  P. Basser,et al.  Diffusion tensor MR imaging of the human brain. , 1996, Radiology.

[81]  Khader M Hasan,et al.  Diffusion-tensor imaging of white matter tracts in patients with cerebral neoplasm. , 2002, Journal of neurosurgery.

[82]  R. Bronen,et al.  MR imaging of the temporal stem: anatomic dissection tractography of the uncinate fasciculus, inferior occipitofrontal fasciculus, and Meyer's loop of the optic radiation. , 2004, AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology.

[83]  D. Tuch.  Q‐ball imaging , 2004, Magnetic resonance in medicine.

[84]  Veit Rohde,et al.  Intraoperative three-dimensional visualization of the pyramidal tract in a neuronavigation system (PTV) reliably predicts true position of principal motor pathways. , 2003, Surgical neurology.

[85]  N. K. Focke,et al.  Defining Meyer's loop–temporal lobe resections, visual field deficits and diffusion tensor tractography , 2009, Brain : a journal of neurology.

[86]  E. Mandonnet,et al.  Is the left uncinate fasciculus essential for language? , 2009, Journal of Neurology.

[87]  Thomas R. Barrick,et al.  Atlas-based segmentation of white matter tracts of the human brain using diffusion tensor tractography and comparison with classical dissection , 2008, NeuroImage.

[88]  D Le Bihan,et al.  Correspondence between functional magnetic resonance imaging somatotopy and individual brain anatomy of the central region: comparison with intraoperative stimulation in patients with brain tumors. , 2000, Journal of neurosurgery.