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Abstract #1451

Separation of Fiber Tracts Within the Human Cingulum Bundle Using Single-Shot STEAM DTI with Partial Fourier Encoding and Parallel Imaging

Alexander Karaus1, Sabine Hofer1, Jens Frahm1

1Biomedizinische NMR Forschungs GmbH, Goettingen, Germany


The purpose of this work was to present the cinglulum bundle located above the corpus callosum. It consists of a complex white matter fiber tract of the human brain that comprises long association fibers, commissural fibers, and various U-fibers. The fiber tractography was achieved by diffusion tensor imaging using a single-shot STEAM-sequence with 24 gradient directions at 1.8 mm isotropic resolution. In order to map the full cingulum bundle 41 oblique sections in AC-PC orientation were acquired without gaps in an interleaved order.