Open AccessRole of diffusion tensor imaging in brain tumor surgery
Author(s) -
Amitesh Dubey,
Rashim Kataria,
Virendra Deo Sinha
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
asian journal of neurosurgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2248-9614
DOI - 10.4103/ajns.ajns_226_16
Subject(s) - medicine , diffusion mri , white matter , magnetic resonance imaging , surgical planning , fiber tract , pyramidal tracts , infiltration (hvac) , corticospinal tract , radiology , brain metastasis , nuclear medicine , metastasis , anatomy , cancer , physics , thermodynamics
The objective is to evaluate the role of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in intra-axial brain tumor cases (gliomas and metastasis). To preoperatively assess the integrity and location of white matter (WM) tracts and plan the surgical corridor to cause least damage to the WM tracts with minimum postoperative new neurological deficits.