Collaboration:UNC

Goal

• Discuss DTI tools
• Discuss DTI clinical projects

Activities

• Demonstration of FiberViewer and FiberTracking software (Sampath Vetsa)
  • Training on step-by-step process for using software
    • Computing tensor image from diffusion weighted images
    • Identifying and drawing regions-of-interest using InsightSNAP
    • Performing tractography
    • Analysis of FA,MD,eigenvalue properties along tracts of interest (splenium and genu used as examples)
  • Feedback from UCI group on software ease-of-use
  • UCI group installed and tested software live on their machines - Jim Fallon tested software looking for challenging tracts in neonate data
• Discussion of high-performance visualization of fiber tracts using modern graphics hardware (Vid Petrovic)
• Clinical projects using DTI
  • Explanation by Jim Fallon of previous studies in connection differences between schizophrenics and controls
  • Discussion of Krabbe study between Martin Styner and Jim Fallon

Participants

• Jim Fallon (UC Irvine)
• Martina Panzenboeck (UC Irvine)
• Vid Petrovic (UC Irvine)
• Guido Gerig (UNC)
• Martin Styner (UNC)
• Isabelle Corouge (UNC)
• Sampath Vetsa (UNC)
• Casey Goodlett (UNC)