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Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) allows for the visualization of major tracts in the cerebellum and the brain stem. We illustrate the main tracts of clinical interest on images in the axial, coronal and sagittal images acquired on a 3T MRI Scanner.
Andrea Poretti was deceased at the time of publication.
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Details of the diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) technique and acquisition details were described in detail in Chap. 2. For this chapter, selected images were chosen for labeling that best represented the local anatomy in a given region. Note that we chose to reconstruct images in the planes most commonly viewed by radiologists; as such, our labels are more relevant to routine clinical MRI than the labels presented in traditional histological atlases [1–5].
Each page contains the labeled images on the left-hand side. A small image on the top right of the page documents the locations of the slices, and a key in the lower right-hand side of the page lists the individual structures.
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Poretti, A. (2018). White Matter Anatomy. In: Agarwal, N., Port, J. (eds) Neuroimaging: Anatomy Meets Function. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57427-1_8
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