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The DTI Challenge workshop was held at the MICCAI 2011 conference in Toronto, Canada. Please visit the [http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Events:_DTI_Tractography_Challenge_MICCAI_2011 workshop page ] of the event for details on the organization.

This page will gather material on the on-going effort and workshop outcomes. 

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== Workshop Faculty== 

*Sonia Pujol, Ph.D., Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School 
*Ron Kikinis, M.D., Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
*Alexandra Golby, M.D., Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
*Guido Gerig, Ph.D.,The Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah
*Martin Styner, Ph.D., Neuro Image Research and Analysis Laboratory, University of North Carolina
*William Wells, Ph.D., Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
*Carl-Fredrik Westin, Ph.D., Laboratory of Mathematics in Imaging, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
*Sylvain Gouttard, M.Sc.,The Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah
*Arya Nabavi, M.D., Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany

== Teams participating in the challenge ==
* Olivier Commowick, Aymeric Stamm, INRIA Rennes, France
* Caroline Brun, UPenn, Philadelphia, USA 
* Alonso Ramirez, Ramon Aranda, University of Guanajuato, Mexico
* Maged Goubran, Robarts Research Institute, Toronto, Canada
* Gopal Veni, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, Salt Lake City, USA
* Guang Cheng, University of Florida, USA
* Antonio Tristan-Vega, Laboratory of Mathematics in Imaging, Boston, USA
* Peter Neher, German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany
* Yundi Shi, UNC Chapell Hill, USA

== Corticospinal tract definition ==

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| align="center" width="300px" |[[Image:Corticospinaltract.bmp|350px|thumb|Corticospinal tract. Source: Barrett KE, Barman SM, Boitano S, Brooks H. Ganong's Review of Medical Physiology, 23rd Edition. http://www.accessmedicine.com]]
| align="center" width="300px" |[[File:BrodmannAreas.bmp |thumb|350px|right|Lateral aspect of the cerebrum. The cortical areas are shown according to Brodmann with functional localizations. Source: Waxman SG. Clinical Neuroanatomy,26th Edition. http://www.accessmedicine.com]]
| align="center" width="300px" |[[File:MotorHomunculus.bmp|thumb|250px|right|Motor Homunculus. Source: Penfield W. and Rasmussen T. The Cerebral Cortex of Man, New York, Macmillan, 1950.]]
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<gallery widths=300px heights=300px perrow=3 caption="Cortico Spinal Tract (CST), from the 2008 edition of the PNL SPL brain atlas">
image:CST-SPL-PNL-Atlas-2008-Issue.png|CST and surrounding structures: Putamen blue, caudate nucleus in brown, lateral ventricles in green
image:Screen Shot 2011-09-18 at 12.51.51 PM.png|3d rendering of the CST. Motor Cortex in Yellow, CST in white, thalamic nuclei in multiple colors
image:Screen Shot 2011-09-18 at 12.52.14 PM.png|3d rendering of the CST, view from below
</gallery>

*The atlas is freely available. For a download, see [http://www.spl.harvard.edu/publications/item/view/1265 here]. In addition to the label maps, it is configured to be loaded into 3D Slicer. Several preconfigured views are available.
*For more information about where the CST is located in the posterior limb in the internal capsule and spinal cord, have a look at the picture in this [http://academic.regis.edu/rcloues/Diencephalon_files/slide0027_image007.jpg link].