A MATLAB toolbox for muscle diffusion-tensor MRI tractography.

ABSTRACT: Diffusion-tensor MRI fiber tractography has been used to reconstruct skeletal muscle architecture, but remains a specialized technique using custom-written data processing routines. In this work, we describe the public release of a software toolbox having the following design objectives: accomplish the pre-processing tasks of file input, image registration, denoising, and diffusion-tensor calculation; allow muscle-specific methods for defining seed points; make fiber-tract architectural measurements referenced to tendinous structures; visualize fiber tracts and other muscle structures of interest; analyze the goodness of outcomes; and provide a programming structure that allows the addition of new capabilities in future versions. The proper function of the code was verified using simulated

SUBMITTER: Damon BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9673086 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature