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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2016
Applicant:
Siemens Healthcare Gmbh, Erlangen, DE;
Inventors:
Hasan Ertan Cetingul, Fulton, MD (US);
Benjamin L. Odry, West New York, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Erlangen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/563 (2006.01); A61B 5/055 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/30 (2017.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01); G01R 33/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/56341 (2013.01); A61B 5/0013 (2013.01); A61B 5/0042 (2013.01); A61B 5/055 (2013.01); A61B 5/7271 (2013.01); A61B 5/742 (2013.01); G06T 5/002 (2013.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01); G06T 7/30 (2017.01); A61B 2576/026 (2013.01); G01R 33/5608 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10092 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20128 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30016 (2013.01);
Abstract
In white matter tractography from magnetic resonance imaging, a mathematical representation of diffusion (e.g., fiber orientation distributions) is first estimated from the diffusion MR data. Fiber tracing is performed via deterministic or probabilistic tractography where the tract maps and brain regions from multiple atlases and/or templates can be used for seeding and/or as spatial constraints. Field map correction and/or denoising may improve the diffusion weighted imaging data used in tractography.