Diffusion Imaging References

General

• Imaging of intravoxel incoherent motions: application to diffusion and perfusion in neurologic disorders
  (1986 Le Bihan paper introducing ADC, explaining effect of fluid flow/perfusion on ADC values -- free pdf download)
• ALL of Peter Basser's publications
  (The original references for DTI. Includes scanned-in pdfs from 1994.)
• Diffusion Tensor Imaging: Concepts and Applications
• Diffusion tensor MR imaging of the human brain
  (Gives ranges for eigenvalues and trace in anatomical regions)
• Yale Diffusion Journal Club
• NMR in Biomedicine Special Issue: Diffusion tensor imaging and axonal mapping - state of the art
• Analysis of partial volume effects in diffusion-tensor MRI
• High angular resolution diffusion imaging reveals intravoxel white matter fiber heterogeneity

Anisotropy Measures

• Processing and visualization for diffusion tensor MRI
  (About tensor calculation and the geometrical tensor measures: linear, planar, and spherical)
• A geometric analysis of diffusion tensor measurements of the human brain
  (Gives ranges for anisotropy measures in anatomical regions)
• Analytical error propagation in diffusion anisotropy calculations
  (How noise/number of gradients relate to errors in RA and FA)
• Orthogonal tensor invariants and the analysis of diffusion tensor magnetic resonance images
  (Introduces mode)

Tractography

• In Vivo Fiber Tractography Using DT-MRI Data
• Tractography References Webpage
  (A huge number of references for a large variety of methods)
• PASTA: Pointwise assessment of streamline tractography attributes
  (Software for plotting scalar invariants along paths)

Tractography-based Measurements

• Tract-specific anisotropy measurements in diffusion tensor imaging
  Application to schizophrenia. Analysis of FA in genu of corpus.
• Tractography-based quantitation of diffusion tensor imaging parameters in white matter tracts of preterm newborns
  (pyramidal tracts, 1.4 x 1.4 x 3mm voxels, results: ADC, FA in slice cross-sections with ROIs defined by tractography. reproducibility study.)
• Age effects on diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging tractography measures of frontal cortex connections in schizophrenia
  (uncinate fasciculus, superior longitudinal fasciculus, inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus, cingulum, 2.5mm isotropic voxels, results: mean FA and MD)
• Bilateral limbic diffusion abnormalities in unilateral temporal lobe epilepsy
  (fornix and cingulum, 2mm isotropic voxels, results: mean FA, eigenvalues, ADC)
• Asymmetry analysis of cingulum based on scale-invariant parameterization by diffusion tensor imaging
  (alignment of cingulum paths based on anatomical local coordinate system. matrix = 128 × 128, 24x24cm FOV, 3mm thick no gap, results: FA distribution along bundle)

Fiber Tract Clustering

• Towards a Shape Model of White Matter Fiber Bundles Using Diffusion Tensor MRI (ISBI 2004)
• Clustering Fiber Traces Using Normalized Cuts (MICCAI 2004)
• White Matter Tract Clustering and Correspondence in Populations (MICCAI 2005)
• Automated Atlas-Based Clustering of White Matter Fiber Tracts from DTMRI (MICCAI 2005)
• Evaluation of Fiber Clustering Methods for Diffusion Tensor Imaging (IEEE Vis 2005)

Laterality

• Asymmetry of subinsular anisotropy by in vivo diffusion tensor imaging
  (asymmetry of speech/language areas. 2.3 x 2.3 x 3mm voxels, results: FA, RA, eigenvalues in language ROIs)

Anatomy

• Diffusion Tensor Imaging of Cerebral White Matter: A Pictorial Review of Physics, Fiber Tract Anatomy, and Tumor Imaging Patterns
  (This paper is great.)
• Virtual in Vivo Interactive Dissection of White Matter Fasciculi in the Human Brain
• Fiber Tract-based Atlas of Human White Matter Anatomy
• DTI Atlas website
  (Seems not to work right with firefox)

Neurosurgery

• Diffusion-tensor imaging of white matter tracts in patients with cerebral neoplasm

  (2D color orientation maps with pathology)
• Brain Tumor MRI - State of the Art

  (Can't access from MIT, try at BWH)
• Advanced MRI for brain tumors: a neurosurgical perspective

  (Can't access from MIT, try at BWH)
• Topics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging issue on tumors

  (Can't access from MIT, try at BWH)
• Evaluation of the functional diffusion map as an early biomarker of time-to-progression and overall survival in high-grade glioma

  (not DTI)
• Peritumoral Diffusion Tensor Imaging of High-Grade Gliomas and Metastatic Brain Tumors
• Diffusion tensor eigenvector directional color imaging patterns in the evaluation of cerebral white matter tracts altered by tumor
• Contribution of diffusion tensor imaging to delineation of gliomas and glioblastomas
• Preoperative and Intraoperative Diffusion Tensor Imaging-based Fiber Tracking in Glioma Surgery
• Fiber-tracking does not accurately estimate size of fiber bundle in pathological condition: initial neurosurgical experience using neuronavigation and subcortical white matter stimulation
• A primer on diffusion tensor imaging of anatomical substructures

Visualization

• Color Schemes to Represent the Orientation of Anisotropic Tissues From Diffusion Tensor Data: Application to White Matter Fiber Tract Mapping in the Human Brain

Group Studies

• Cross-subject comparison of principal diffusion direction maps
  (SPM normalization -> tensor reorientation -> statistical tests on eigenvectors)
• Diffusion tractography based group mapping of major white-matter pathways in the human brain
  (FMT -> voxel connectivities -> SPM normalization)
• PubMed listing for fast marching tractography
• Occipito-temporal connections in the human brain
  (group registration-> tractography in average tensor data -> ILF demonstrated)
• Spatial normalization and averaging of diffusion tensor MRI data sets
• A Framework for Callosal Fiber Distribution Analysis