Sarah
Charlotte Mang1,2, Ania Busza, 2,3, Susanne Reiterer2,
Wolfgang Grodd2, Uwe Klose2
1SIDT, German Cancer Research Center,
Heidelberg, Germany; 2Section Experimental MR, Dept. of
Neuroradiology, University Hospital Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany; 3MD/PhD
Program, University of Massachusetts
Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States
Fast
and accurate segmentation of thalamic nuclei is important for clinical
applications. We validated a segmentation method that is based on the
classification of the local diffusion direction. We could show the
correspondence between our segmentation results and anatomy known from a
stereotactic atlas by Morel et al. in a group study of 63 healthy subjects.
To show the similarity of individual subject results we compared the
center-of-mass coordinates of the individual clusters and could show that
they correspond well to each other.