Qing Ji1, Matthew Scoggins1, Angela Edwards1, John O. Glass1, Tara Brinkman2,3, Zoltan Patay1, and Wilburn E. Reddick1
1Diagnostic Imaging, St.Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, United States, 2Psychology, St.Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, United States, 3Epidemiology and Cancer Control, St.Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, United States
1Diagnostic Imaging, St.Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, United States, 2Psychology, St.Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, United States, 3Epidemiology and Cancer Control, St.Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, United States
Based on similarities of streamlines in the human
CTC pathway, this study proposed a method of “implementing” a CTC template
obtained from multiple healthy controls to the individual patient instead of
directly performing DTI fiber tracking.
Figure 1 Illustration
of the process for constructing CTC fiber template.
Figure 5 The
CTC template was aligned to 12 subjects. The FA distribution along CTC tracts
of those 12 subjects were shown. The subject 1 was a normal control and
subjects 2 to subject 12 were postoperative medulloblastoma patients. Subject 2
4 6 8 and 11 had bilateral native tractable CTCs. Subject 3, 5, 7, and 9 have
unilateral left native tractable CTCs. The bilateral CTCs for subject 10 and 12
were natively intractable.
