PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Chung, S.
AU  - Storey, P.
AU  - Shepherd, T.M.
AU  - Lui, Y.W.
TI  - MR Susceptibility Imaging with a Short TE (MR-SISET): A Clinically Feasible Technique to Resolve Thalamic Nuclei
AID  - 10.3174/ajnr.A6683
DP  - 2020 Jul 16
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/early/2020/07/16/ajnr.A6683.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/early/2020/07/16/ajnr.A6683.full
AB  - SUMMARY: The thalamus consists of several functionally distinct nuclei, some of which serve as targets for functional neurosurgery. Visualization of such nuclei is a major challenge due to their low signal contrast on conventional imaging. We introduce MR susceptibility imaging with a short TE, leveraging susceptibility differences among thalamic nuclei, to automatically delineate 15 thalamic subregions. The technique has the potential to enable direct targeting of thalamic nuclei for functional neurosurgical guidance.MR-SISETMR susceptibility imaging with a short TESThsubthalmicCMcentromedian