title: Imaging of postthalamic visual fiber tracts by anisotropic diffusion weighted MRI and diffusion tensor imaging: principles and applications.
abstract: Diffusion weighted MRI offers the possibility to study the course of the cerebral white matter tracts. In the present manuscript, the basics, the technique and the limitations of diffusion tensor imaging and anisotropic diffusion weighted MRI are presented and their applications in various neurological and neurosurgical diseases are discussed with special emphasis on the visual system. A special focus is laid on the combination of fiber tract imaging, anatomical imaging and functional MRI for presurgical planning and intraoperative neuronavigation of lesions near the visual system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery and Neuroradiology, University Hospital of the Technical University Aachen, Pauwelsstrasse 30, 52057 Aachen, Germany.
authors.forename: Marcus H T
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Reinges
authors.forename: Felix
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Schoth
authors.forename: Volker A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Coenen
authors.forename: Timo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Krings
mesh_terms: D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D001931:Brain Mapping / Q000379:methods; D038524:Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D011300:Preoperative Care; D011712:Pyramidal Tracts / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology