Characterisation of the corticospinal tract using Diffusion Magnetic Resonance imaging in Unilateral and Bilateral Cerebral Palsy patients
Neuroimaging is increasingly used to locate the lesion that causes cerebralpalsy (CP) and its extent in the brains of CP patients. Conventional structural magnetic resonanceimaging (MRI) does not indicate the connectional pattern of white matter; however, with the helpof diffusion MRI, fibre trackin...
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| author | Safwan Samsir Rahimah Zakaria Salmi abdul razak Mohamed Saat Ismail Mohd Zulkifli abdul rahim Chia-Shu lin Nik Mohammad Faez Nik Osman Mohammad Afiq Asri Asma Hayati Ahmad |
| author_facet | Safwan Samsir Rahimah Zakaria Salmi abdul razak Mohamed Saat Ismail Mohd Zulkifli abdul rahim Chia-Shu lin Nik Mohammad Faez Nik Osman Mohammad Afiq Asri Asma Hayati Ahmad |
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| description | Neuroimaging is increasingly used to locate the lesion that causes cerebralpalsy (CP) and its extent in the brains of CP patients. Conventional structural magnetic resonanceimaging (MRI) does not indicate the connectional pattern of white matter; however, with the helpof diffusion MRI, fibre tracking of white matter can be done.Methods: We used diffusion MRI and probabilistic tractography to identify the putativewhite matter connectivity in the brains of 10 CP patients. We tracked the corticospinal tract (CST)of the patients’ upper and lower limbs and calculated the white matter connectivity, as indexed bystreamlines representing the probability of connection of the CST.Results: Our results show that diffusion MRI with probabilistic tractography, while havingsome relation with the clinical diagnosis of CP, reveals a high degree of individual variation in thestreamlines representing the CST for upper and lower limbs.Conclusion: Diffusion MRI with probabilistic tractography provides the state ofconnectivity from lesioned areas to other parts of the brain and is potentially beneficial to beused as an adjunct to the clinical management of CP, providing a means to monitor interventionoutcomes. |
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| spelling | ums.eprints-218992019-05-07T00:29:13Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/21899/ Characterisation of the corticospinal tract using Diffusion Magnetic Resonance imaging in Unilateral and Bilateral Cerebral Palsy patients Safwan Samsir Rahimah Zakaria Salmi abdul razak Mohamed Saat Ismail Mohd Zulkifli abdul rahim Chia-Shu lin Nik Mohammad Faez Nik Osman Mohammad Afiq Asri Asma Hayati Ahmad RC Internal medicine Neuroimaging is increasingly used to locate the lesion that causes cerebralpalsy (CP) and its extent in the brains of CP patients. Conventional structural magnetic resonanceimaging (MRI) does not indicate the connectional pattern of white matter; however, with the helpof diffusion MRI, fibre tracking of white matter can be done.Methods: We used diffusion MRI and probabilistic tractography to identify the putativewhite matter connectivity in the brains of 10 CP patients. We tracked the corticospinal tract (CST)of the patients’ upper and lower limbs and calculated the white matter connectivity, as indexed bystreamlines representing the probability of connection of the CST.Results: Our results show that diffusion MRI with probabilistic tractography, while havingsome relation with the clinical diagnosis of CP, reveals a high degree of individual variation in thestreamlines representing the CST for upper and lower limbs.Conclusion: Diffusion MRI with probabilistic tractography provides the state ofconnectivity from lesioned areas to other parts of the brain and is potentially beneficial to beused as an adjunct to the clinical management of CP, providing a means to monitor interventionoutcomes. UniversitI Sains Malaysia 2018 Article PeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/21899/1/Characterisation%20of%20the%20corticospinal%20tract%20using%20Diffusion%20Magnetic%20Resonance%20imaging%20in%20Unilateral%20and%20Bilateral%20Cerebral%20Palsy%20patients.pdf Safwan Samsir and Rahimah Zakaria and Salmi abdul razak and Mohamed Saat Ismail and Mohd Zulkifli abdul rahim and Chia-Shu lin and Nik Mohammad Faez Nik Osman and Mohammad Afiq Asri and Asma Hayati Ahmad (2018) Characterisation of the corticospinal tract using Diffusion Magnetic Resonance imaging in Unilateral and Bilateral Cerebral Palsy patients. The Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences, 25 (5). pp. 68-78. ISSN 1394-195X https://doi.org/10.21315/mjms2018.25.5.7 |
| spellingShingle | RC Internal medicine Safwan Samsir Rahimah Zakaria Salmi abdul razak Mohamed Saat Ismail Mohd Zulkifli abdul rahim Chia-Shu lin Nik Mohammad Faez Nik Osman Mohammad Afiq Asri Asma Hayati Ahmad Characterisation of the corticospinal tract using Diffusion Magnetic Resonance imaging in Unilateral and Bilateral Cerebral Palsy patients |
| title | Characterisation of the corticospinal tract using Diffusion Magnetic Resonance imaging in Unilateral and Bilateral Cerebral Palsy patients |
| title_full | Characterisation of the corticospinal tract using Diffusion Magnetic Resonance imaging in Unilateral and Bilateral Cerebral Palsy patients |
| title_fullStr | Characterisation of the corticospinal tract using Diffusion Magnetic Resonance imaging in Unilateral and Bilateral Cerebral Palsy patients |
| title_full_unstemmed | Characterisation of the corticospinal tract using Diffusion Magnetic Resonance imaging in Unilateral and Bilateral Cerebral Palsy patients |
| title_short | Characterisation of the corticospinal tract using Diffusion Magnetic Resonance imaging in Unilateral and Bilateral Cerebral Palsy patients |
| title_sort | characterisation of the corticospinal tract using diffusion magnetic resonance imaging in unilateral and bilateral cerebral palsy patients |
| topic | RC Internal medicine |
| url | https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/21899/1/Characterisation%20of%20the%20corticospinal%20tract%20using%20Diffusion%20Magnetic%20Resonance%20imaging%20in%20Unilateral%20and%20Bilateral%20Cerebral%20Palsy%20patients.pdf |
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