title: Curved reconstruction along the anterior optic pathway.
abstract: Curved reconstruction of a three-dimensional data set along the anterior optic pathway improves visibility of the optic nerves and chiasm and facilitates comparison between the two nerves. Curved reconstruction reveals three patterns in patients with masses of the anterior optic pathway. Retrobulbar buckling of the optic nerve into a "periscope" configuration is observed in some patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Imaging, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA.
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Gronemeyer
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Langston
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Abraham
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005910:Glioma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009456:Neurofibromatosis 1 / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009897:Optic Chiasm / Q000473:pathology*; D009900:Optic Nerve / Q000473:pathology*; D019574:Optic Nerve Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity