TY  - JOUR
AU  - Axer, Markus
AU  - Strohmer, Sven
AU  - Gräßel, David
AU  - Bücker, Oliver
AU  - Dohmen, Melanie
AU  - Reckfort, Julia
AU  - Zilles, Karl
AU  - Amunts, Katrin
TI  - Estimating Fiber Orientation Distribution Functions in 3D-Polarized Light Imaging
JO  - Frontiers in neuroanatomy
VL  - 10
SN  - 1662-5129
CY  - Lausanne
PB  - Frontiers Research Foundation
M1  - FZJ-2016-02436
SP  - 40
PY  - 2016
AB  - Research of the human brain connectome requires multiscale approaches derived from independent imaging methods ideally applied to the same object. Hence, comprehensible strategies for data integration across modalities and across scales are essential. We have successfully established a concept to bridge the spatial scales from microscopic fiber orientation measurements based on 3D-Polarized Light Imaging (3D-PLI) to meso- or macroscopic dimensions. By creating orientation distribution functions (pliODFs) from high-resolution vector data via series expansion with spherical harmonics utilizing high performance computing and supercomputing technologies, data fusion with Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging has become feasible, even for a large-scale dataset such as the human brain. Validation of our approach was done effectively by means of two types of datasets that were transferred from fiber orientation maps into pliODFs: simulated 3D-PLI data showing artificial, but clearly defined fiber patterns and real 3D-PLI data derived from sections through the human brain and the brain of a hooded seal.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000374307100001
C6  - pmid:27147981
DO  - DOI:10.3389/fnana.2016.00040
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/808906
ER  -