ReviewNeuroImage. Clinical2017
White matter tractography for neurosurgical planning: A topography-based review of the current state of the art.
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132 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Neural pathway-guided radiosurgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis of diffusion tensor imaging applications in stereotactic radiosurgery.Neurosurgical review · 2026Pooled it
- ESR Essentials: diffusion-weighted MRI-practice recommendations by the European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology.European radiology · 2026Guideline
- A systematic review of automated methods to perform white matter tract segmentation.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Pooled it
- Neurocircuitry of Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder as Revealed by Tractography: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Charting the Normal Development of Structural Brain Connectivity in Utero Using Diffusion MRI.Human brain mapping · 2026Article
- Three-Dimensional Identification of the Frontal Aslant Tract in the Human Brain: Tractography Study.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Benchmarking Generalizability in Deep Learning-Based White Matter Tract Segmentation.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Diagnostic and sex effects on frontostriatal brain wiring structural organization in early psychosis affective subjects compared to healthy controls.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Article
- CNNT-Net: a novel deep learning-based framework for estimating high-quality fiber orientation distributions from single-shell dMRI.Physical and engineering sciences in medicine · 2026Article
- Evaluating Unimodal and Multimodal Tracking Strategies for the Reconstruction of Language-related White Matter Tracts.Clinical neuroradiology · 2026Article
- BBB-Permeable Near-Infrared Oxazine Fluorophores for White Matter Tract Imaging.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Fully Differentiable dMRI Streamline Propagation in PyTorch.Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering · 2026Article
- Advanced diffusion MRI tractography for radiotherapy planning in pediatric brain tumors: A feasibility study.Physics and imaging in radiation oncology · 2026Article
- Accuracy of corticospinal tract reconstruction: DTI-based deterministic versus probabilistic tractography with intraoperative validation.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
- Deterministic or probabilistic tractography? Choosing the appropriate approach in clinical neurosurgery and neuroradiology practice.Polish journal of radiology · 2026Review
- Development of the glioma imaging complexity score (GICS): a volumetric MRI-based stratification framework.Frontiers in surgery · 2026Article
- Comparison of multiple tractography pipelines for corticospinal tract reconstruction applied to brain tumor patients.Neuroradiology · 2025Article
- Does Fiber Orientation Distribution Really Outperform Diffusion Tensor Imaging-Based Tractography in the Clinic? A Diagnostic Test Accuracy Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Intraoperative Tractography.Neurosurgery practice · 2025Review
- Effect of a consistent reconstruction algorithm on inter-scanner reproducibility in diffusion MRI.Medical physics · 2025Article
- Atlas-based templates vs. subject-specific tractography: resolving the debate.Brain structure & function · 2025Review
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Abstract
We perform a review of the literature in the field of white matter tractography for neurosurgical planning, focusing on those works where tractography was correlated with clinical information such as patient outcome, clinical functional testing, or electro-cortical stimulation. We organize the review by anatomical location in the brain and by surgical procedure, including both supratentorial and infratentorial pathologies, and excluding spinal cord applications. Where possible, we discuss implications of tractography for clinical care, as well as clinically relevant technical considerations regarding the tractography methods. We find that tractography is a valuable tool in variable situations in modern neurosurgery. Our survey of recent reports demonstrates multiple potentially successful applications of white matter tractography in neurosurgery, with progress towards overcoming clinical challenges of standardization and interpretation.
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