Identification of the pedunculopontine nucleus and surrounding white matter tracts on 7T diffusion tensor imaging, combined with histological validation.

Dylan Jozef Hendrik Augustinus HenssenD KuppensF J A MeijerA M van Cappellen van WalsumY TemelE Kurt

Published in: Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA (2018)

This study supports previous findings that the PPN can be identified using FA-maps of DTI images. For possible clinical application in DBS localization, in vivo validation of the findings of our study is needed.

Keyphrases

white matter
deep learning
multiple sclerosis
machine learning
optical coherence tomography
convolutional neural network