Yan Li1, Yu Liu1, Naying He1, Chencheng Zhang2, Yijie Lai2, Hongyang Li2, Qing Li3, Caixia Fu4, Fuhua Yan1, and Ewart Mark Haacke1,5
1Department of Radiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, 2Department of Neurosurgery, Center for Functional Neurosurgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, 3MR Collaborations, Siemens Healthcare Ltd., Shanghai, China, 4MR Application Development, Siemens Shenzhen Magnetic Resonance Ltd., Shenzhen, China, 5Department of Radiology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States
1Department of Radiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, 2Department of Neurosurgery, Center for Functional Neurosurgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, 3MR Collaborations, Siemens Healthcare Ltd., Shanghai, China, 4MR Application Development, Siemens Shenzhen Magnetic Resonance Ltd., Shenzhen, China, 5Department of Radiology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States
Both DBS ON and OFF diffusion weighted imaging are safe and the
tractography results are significantly comparable. DBS ON DTI is particularly
fitting for those patients who cannot control their disease symptoms without
stimulation but need MRI.
Table 3 The track count number
of nigrostriatal pathway of both left and right sides in DBS ON/OFF images and
their comparisons.
Figure 2 The deterministic tracking result of the same representative
subject in two states: a) DBS ON, and b) DBS OFF.
