期刊
JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
卷 29, 期 3, 页码 529-536出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21627
关键词
diffusion tensor imaging; stroke recovery; MRI; tractography
资金
- Blue Sky Foundation
Purpose: To investigate corticospinal tract connectivity changes at the cortical surface using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) tractography during recovery from stroke. Materials and Methods: Using data from 10 stroke patients (four subcortical) and six elderly controls, we developed an automated method to quantify altered motor connectivity that involves the use of a simplified cortical surface model as a seed mask with target regions defined within the corticospinal tracts to initiate a probabilistic tractography algorithm. Results: We found no change in volume overlap of the generated corticospinal tracts in the stroke patients compared to controls, but significant connectivity changes at the boundary of the simplified cortical surface mask, especially within the ipsilesional hemisphere of stroke patients over time. Using the cortical regions with significantly enhanced connectivity as a seed mask on the patient data, tracts that are directly associated with stroke recovery can be delineated. Measures of uncertainty in fiber orientation within these fiber tracts significantly con-elated With functional outcome. Conclusion: The novel findings from this study highlight the usefulness of this methodology to study white matter repair/reorganization during stroke recovery.
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