Towards an Elastographic Atlas of Brain Anatomy

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 8; no. 8; p. e71807
• Main Authors: Guo, Jing, Hirsch, Sebastian, Fehlner, Andreas, Papazoglou, Sebastian, Scheel, Michael, Braun, Juergen, Sack, Ingolf
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 14.08.2013; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Alzheimer's disease; Alzheimers disease; Anatomy; Biology; Brain; Brain - physiology; Brain mapping; Brain Mapping - methods; Caudate nucleus; Corpus callosum; Elasticity Imaging Techniques - methods; Female; Fractals; Head; Healthy Volunteers; Humans; Image detection; Magnetic resonance; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Mathematics; Medicine; Middle Aged; Multiple sclerosis; Nervous system diseases; Neurological diseases; NMR; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Oscillations; Shear modulus; Spatial discrimination; Spatial resolution; Stiffness; Substantia alba; Thalamus; Therapeutic applications; Viscoelasticity; Young Adult

Cerebral viscoelastic constants can be measured in a noninvasive, image-based way by magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) for the detection of neurological disorders. However, MRE brain maps of viscoelastic constants are still limited by low spatial resolution. Here we introduce three-dimensional m...