ArticlePloS one2015
Anisotropic Smoothing Improves DT-MRI-Based Muscle Fiber Tractography.
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- A registration strategy to characterize DTI-observed changes in skeletal muscle architecture due to passive shortening.PloS one · 2025Article
- The impact of diffusion tensor imaging tractography settings on muscle fascicle architecture and diffusion parameter estimates: Tract length, completion, and curvature are most sensitive to tractography settings.NMR in biomedicine · 2024Article
- A registration strategy to characterize DTI-observed changes in skeletal muscle architecture due to passive shortening.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Predicted effects of image acquisition and analysis conditions on DTMRI tractography-based muscle architecture estimates.Magnetic resonance in medicine · 2024Article
- A MATLAB toolbox for muscle diffusion-tensor MRI tractography.Journal of biomechanics · 2021Article
- Soleus muscle weakness in cerebral palsy: Muscle architecture revealed with Diffusion Tensor Imaging.PloS one · 2019Article
- Skeletal muscle diffusion tensor-MRI fiber tracking: rationale, data acquisition and analysis methods, applications and future directions.NMR in biomedicine · 2017Review
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Abstract
purposeTo assess the effect of anisotropic smoothing on fiber tracking measures, including pennation angle, fiber tract length, and fiber tract number in the medial gastrocnemius (MG) muscle in healthy subjects using diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI). MATERIALS AND
methods3T DW-MRI data were used for muscle fiber tractography in the MG of healthy subjects. Anisotropic smoothing was applied at three levels (5%, 10%, 15%), and pennation angle, tract length, fiber tract number, fractional anisotropy, and principal eigenvector orientation were quantified for each smoothing level.
resultsFiber tract length increased with pre-fiber tracking smoothing, and local heterogeneities in fiber direction were reduced. However, pennation angle was not affected by smoothing.
conclusionModest anisotropic smoothing (10%) improved fiber-tracking results, while preserving structural features.
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