Recent advance in diffusion tensor imaging in assisting surgery of complex intracranial neoplasms
10.3760/cma.j.cn115354-20200506-00334
- VernacularTitle:弥散张量成像辅助复杂颅内肿瘤手术的研究进展
- Author:
Xingwu LIU
1
;
Zhiqiang FA
;
Xiaozheng HE
;
Shizhong ZHANG
Author Information
1. 国家临床重点专科，教育部工程技术研究中心，广东省脑功能修复与再生重点实验室，南方医科大学珠江医院神经外科，广州 510282
- Keywords:
Cerebral neoplasm;
Diffusion tensor imaging;
Nerve fiber bundle
- From:
Chinese Journal of Neuromedicine
2020;19(10):1075-1079
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a neuroimaging technique which provides exquisite details on tissue microstructure. DTI also plays an important role in 3D reconstruction and visualization of white matter tracts and providing information about the relationship between these tracts and the tumor mass. DTI can not only guide neurosurgeons to optimize the actual surgical procedures and avoid injures to intact, functioning tracts, but also can improve the total rate resection of tumor. At the same time, it can also assist in preoperative risk assessment and postoperative functional assessment. This review is classified by different tractographies involved in brain tumors; it summarizes the advantages and disadvantages of DTI in the last decade. Therefore, this review provides new research methods and evidence for the future complex intracranial tumor treatment.
