Quantification of Cerebellar Crowding in Type I Chiari Malformation

• Published in: Annals of biomedical engineering Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 731 - 743
• Main Authors: Biswas, Dipankar, Eppelheimer, Maggie S., Houston, James R., Ibrahimy, Alaaddin, Bapuraj, J. Rajiv, Labuda, Richard, Allen, Philip A., Frim, David, Loth, Francis
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.03.2019; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Arnold-Chiari Malformation - diagnostic imaging; Arnold-Chiari Malformation - pathology; Biochemistry; Biological and Medical Physics; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering; Biomedicine; Biophysics; Brain; Brain - diagnostic imaging; Brain - pathology; Brain stem; Cerebellum; Cerebrospinal fluid; Classical Mechanics; Congenital defects; Crowding; Elongation; Female; Humans; Magnetic resonance imaging; Middle Aged; Morphometry; Neural tube defects; Parameters; Patients; Skull; Tonsil; Young Adult; Posterior cranial fossa; Cerebrospinal fluid; MRI; Morphology; Tonsillar position

This study was focused on a semi-automated morphometric analysis of the cerebellum in the mid-sagittal plane as an alternative to tonsillar descent alone in the evaluation of Chiari malformation type 1 (CMI) patients. Morphometric analyses of posterior fossa structures were performed on mid-sagittal...