N SLN detection rate Blue dye (%) ICG (%) Tagaya [7] 25 92 100 Abe [8] 128 65.4 100 Sugie [9] 99 78 100 Hojo [10] 113 93 100…
Fig. 1.1 Molecular formula of ICG 1.2 Optical Characteristics of ICG The optical characteristics of ICG is shown in Fig. 1.2. Fig. 1.2 Optical characteristics of ICG and absorption spectra of…
Fig. 12.1 The principle of fiber tracking . (a) Schematic view of a person watching a flower. Information is transported from the eye to the visual cortex at the back…
(4.1) The b-factor in this equation captures all the relevant scanning parameters and was introduced to take abstraction of them [2]. In general, it can be seen as the amount…
Fig. 11.1 In vivo illustration of a single streamline created in the corpus callosum, superimposed on the principal orientation field. The seed point is denoted by an asterisk. Image created…
Fig. 6.1 This figure shows the readout, phase encode, slice select, and radiofrequency (G ro, G pe, G ss, and RF respectively) of a typical Stejskal-Tanner diffusion pulse sequence with…
, , and (see Box 5.1). Fig. 5.1 Schematic illustration of the relationship between the mathematical diffusion tensor and its ellipsoid representation. Decomposition of the tensor into eigenvectors and eigenvalues…
Fig. 7.1 Decision tree scheme for checking and correcting of diffusion data. Std standard deviation, interslice inst. interslice instabilities, PIS physically implausible signal, MDC motion-distortion correction, TV total variation, FA/DEC…
Fig. 15.1 Differentiation between arachnoid cyst and epidermoid cyst using DWI. A 19-year-old female patient (a–c) and a 27-year-old male patient (d–f), each with a lesion located in the quadrigeminal…
Fig. 20.1 The term “crossing fibers” can refer to any situation where the fiber orientation is not unique. This includes obvious cases where the voxel contains two fiber bundles that…
