Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Gray matter parcellation based on local diffusion properties
Keypoints
Using FA and local principal diffusion direction in combination with k-means clustering to subdivide subcortical areas.
Charting the radiality of the principal diffusion direction on the cortical sheet.
We found plausible subdivisions of caudate nucleus, putamen, amygdala and thalamus.
People currently involved
Alfred Anwander
Sonja Kotz (Minerva Research Group "Neurocognition of Rhythm in Communication")
Thomas Knösche
Publications (peer reviewed)
Schindler, S., Geyer, S., Strauß, M., Anwander, A., Hegerl, U., Turner, R., & Schönknecht, P. (in press). Structural studies of the hypothalamus and its nuclei in mood disorders. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging.
Solano-Castiella, E., Anwander, A., Lohmann, G., Weiss, M., Docherty, C., Geyer, S., Reimer, E., Friederici, A. D., & Turner, R. (2010). Diffusion tensor imaging segments the human amygdala in vivo. NeuroImage, 49(4), 2958-2965. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.11.027.