[Pitch]: Diffusion Fiducials

[joy-zhao]

Title

Diffusion Fiducials

Description

Neurosurgical procedures, such as deep brain stimulation or lesion resection, depend on the precise alignment of multiple types of scans to accurately target specific structures. Currently, clinical quality control relies on visual inspection, which is insensitive to subtle yet significant misalignments. To address this, our lab developed the anatomical fiducials (AFIDs) framework comprising 32 easily identifiable anatomical landmarks to measure alignment accuracy at the millimetre scale. However, this protocol was only validated on T1-weighted (T1w) MRI scans showing anatomical information. In this project, we aim to extend and validate the AFIDs framework for diffusion MRI-derived functional anisotropy maps (FA maps), which show white matter tracks in the brain. We are looking for anyone interested in learning more about neuroanatomy to join our project apply the anatomical fiducial protocol to annotate FA maps!

Project url

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bfl6yQLSA4VBvbSgVSE7qjuQHfg8CVCy?usp=drive_link

Project Leads

Joy Zhao (@joy-zhao)

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