Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
504479 Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics 2008 12 Pages PDF
Abstract

Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative disease of the central nervous system. One of the most effective treatments is deep brain stimulation. This technique requires the localization of an objective structure: the subthalamic nucleus. Unfortunately this structure is difficult to locate. In this work the creation of a deformable brain atlas that enables the identification of the subthalamic nucleus in T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in an automatic, precise and fast way is presented. The system has been validated using data from 10 patients (20 nucleus) operated on for Parkinson’s. Our system offers better results using a Wendland function with an error of 1.8853±0.99591.8853±0.9959 mm.

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