Statistical representation of mean diffusivity and fractional anisotropy brain maps of normal subjects

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Purpose: To create diffusion tensor atlases from echo planar imaging (EPI) images acquired at 3 T in 10 normal subjects. Materials and Methods: Data from 10 right-handed healthy adult volunteers (mean age of 31 ± 3 years; eight males) were acquired using a 3.0-T scanner. Geometric distortion artifacts correction was accomplished by combining parallel acquisition to reduce the distortion as well as postprocessing by registration to a geometrically accurate T2-weighted fast-spin-echo image. This reduced distortions to within a voxel for most of the internal structures of the brain. The apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) and fractional anisotropy (FA) atlases were created by warping images using an iterative optical-flow-based local deformation algorithm that used two channels of data: ADC and FA. Results: A three-dimensional distance measure was used to evaluate the accuracy of the registration algorithm with contours defined on two structures: the corpus callosum and cerebellum. The average three-dimensional distance value for the nine subjects (with the 10th as the reference) was 0.2 mm for the corpus callosum and 1.2 mm for the cerebellum. Conclusion: A high-resolution, diffusion MR atlas with full brain coverage was developed. Additionally, maps of the SD of the diffusion indices were also generated to provide an estimate of the variance within a normal population. Active shape and texture models were also generated for the corpus callosum as an alternate method of representing the variance in morphology and diffusion indices. © 2006 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

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Ardekani, S., & Sinha, U. (2006). Statistical representation of mean diffusivity and fractional anisotropy brain maps of normal subjects. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 24(6), 1243–1251. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmri.20745

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