Diffusion tensor imaging and its application in navigation assisted surgery

• Main Authors: Keqin Shen, Han Wang, Yuxuan Wang, Jincai Chang, Jianzhong Cui
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: JVE International 2020-06-01
• Series: Journal of Complexity in Health Sciences
• Subjects: diffusion tensor imaging; navigation assisted surgical system; fa; diffusion; the tumor
• Online Access: https://www.jvejournals.com/article/21262
• ISSN: 2538-7995; 2538-8002

Navigation-assisted surgery is being studied and used by more and more doctors because of its high success rate, and many techniques are needed, among which diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) plays an important role. The navigation assisted surgery system integrated with DTI will be more perfect and powerful. In order to prove this, we first successfully made DTI images of patients in 3D Slicer. After careful observation and study, we found that in navigation assisted surgery, doctors can use DTI to observe the location of brain tissue more clearly. This paper mainly studies the principle and data formula of DTI, and compares and summarizes how the nerve bundle image generated by DTI plays a role in navigation assisted surgery. The method proposed is very workable for doctors, and the effect of operation is also very easy to see.