Although high angular resolution diffusion MRI techniques are able to solve multiple intra-voxel fiber orientations, the usual streamline Diffusion Spectrum Imaging (DSI) tractography algorithms present some limitations in their ability to map complex fiber-crossings in the brain white matter because they select locally only the most linear trajectories. In this work, we present a fast marching tractography algorithm for DSI, called Fast-TraC, which 1) is able to efficiently address this issue, 2) creates fiber trajectories between 1000 small cortical ROIs covering the entire brain and 3) builds a whole brain connection matrix. We also see selected tracts that are accurately reconstructed.
Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Elvira Pirondini, Cyprien Alban Félicien Rivier
Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Vanessa Siffredi, Minghui Shi