Abstract #0013
Atlas of white-matter tracts in the human spinal cord
Marc Benhamou 1 , Vladimir Fonov 2 , Manuel Taso 3,4 , Arnaud Le Troter 3,4 , Michal Sdika 5 , Louis Collins 2 , Virginie Callot 3,4 , and Julien Cohen-Adad 1
1
Institute of Biomedical Engineering,
Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada,
2
Montreal
Neurological Institute, McGill University, Quebec,
Canada,
3
Aix-Marseille
Universit, CNRS, CRMBM UMR 7339, Marseille, France,
4
APHM,
Hpital de la Timone, CEMEREM, Marseille, France,
5
:
Universit de Lyon, CREATIS; CNRS UMR5220; Inserm U1044;
INSA-Lyon; Universit Lyon 1, Lyon, France
Template-based methods offer a reliable way to conduct
inter-subject studies. Building upon recent developments
of a spinal cord template, this study focuses on the
construction of an atlas of spinal white matter
pathways. Cross-sectional drawings of Grays anatomy
were manually segmented, then warped to the
MNI-POLY-AMU_v1 template using symmetric diffeomorphic
transformation. The atlas was then propagated between C1
and T1 vertebral levels, yielding 30 different regions
of interest, taking into account partial volume effect.
We demonstrate the utility of this atlas for quantifying
diffusion-tensor-imaging data in five healthy
volunteers. The method can be extrapolated to other
multiparametric techniques.
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