Deep brain stimulation of the ventral part of the anterior limb of the internal capsule (vALIC) could potentially benefit from tractography-guided targeting, since it contains two major fiber bundles. In order to develop a diffusion-weighted sequence that has the greatest bundle specificity within the vALIC, we compared tractography results from a single-shell 3T sequence with multi-shell 3T and high-resolution 7T sequences. Although the multi-shell sequence showed superior SNR, it did not allow increased bundle discernibility in the vALIC. The high-resolution sequence showed more anatomical detail, with more radially constrained tractography, and proved superior for separating the two bundles.
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