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Abstract #4174

Quantitative comparison of DTI and STI principal eigenvectors

Nestor Munoz1,2,3, Carlos Milovic3,4, Christian Langkammer5, Sergio Uribe2,3,6, and Cristian Tejos1,2,3
1Electrical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 2Biomedical Imaging Center, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 3Millennium Institute for Intelligent Healthcare Engineering (iHEALTH), Santiago, Chile, 4School of Electrical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile, 5Department of Neurology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria, 6Department of Radiology, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Synopsis

Keywords: Susceptibility, Susceptibility

Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) and Susceptibility Tensor Imaging (STI) are two MRI techniques that produces anisotropy information and fiber direction of biological tissue. For the brain, it has been suggested that both principal eigenvectors (PEV) point towards the same direction (i.e., direction of myelinated axons). However, different resolution of both techniques might produce differences in the PEVs. We proposed a quantitative method to compare DTI and STI PEVs based on the cosine of their angular difference. As expected, we found that PEVs from STI and DTI show similar directions in white matter and that consistency is lost for gray matter and CSF.

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