TY - GEN
T1 - Quantitative analysis of white matter on DTI images of patients with tinnitus
T2 - 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'06
AU - Yoo, Done Sik
AU - Choi, Woo Young
AU - Lee, Soo Yeol
AU - Jeong, Ji Wook
AU - Lee, Jeong Won
AU - Kim, Seunghwan
AU - Chang, Yongmin
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Tinnitus is defined as an unwanted auditory perception of internal origin, usually localized, and rarely heard by others. Persisting appearances of tinnitus are most commonly combined with diseases or damage in the inner ear or neuro-auditory pathway. Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DTI) is a new imaging method with the capability of providing non-invasive information on tissue microstructure not available in routine clinical MRI images. Since white matter regions of the brain are an ordered structure due to the myelination and directionality of axons and have a high degree of anisotropy, the ability to detect changes in anisotropy can be extremely useful in the study of diseases such as tinnitus and multiple sclerosis, which are assumed to involve the demyelination of axons. While several studies investigated tinnitus using MRI, few studies tried to analyze neurological disorders quantitatively using DTI. In this study, the cerebral volume of white matter on DTI images of patients with tinnitus was measured using the semi-automated and intuitive menu based image processing tool (Human Analyzer, ETRI, Korea). Total number of ten patients with tinnitus including three women was examined.
AB - Tinnitus is defined as an unwanted auditory perception of internal origin, usually localized, and rarely heard by others. Persisting appearances of tinnitus are most commonly combined with diseases or damage in the inner ear or neuro-auditory pathway. Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DTI) is a new imaging method with the capability of providing non-invasive information on tissue microstructure not available in routine clinical MRI images. Since white matter regions of the brain are an ordered structure due to the myelination and directionality of axons and have a high degree of anisotropy, the ability to detect changes in anisotropy can be extremely useful in the study of diseases such as tinnitus and multiple sclerosis, which are assumed to involve the demyelination of axons. While several studies investigated tinnitus using MRI, few studies tried to analyze neurological disorders quantitatively using DTI. In this study, the cerebral volume of white matter on DTI images of patients with tinnitus was measured using the semi-automated and intuitive menu based image processing tool (Human Analyzer, ETRI, Korea). Total number of ten patients with tinnitus including three women was examined.
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U2 - 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260350
DO - 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260350
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 17945678
AN - SCOPUS:34047147962
SN - 1424400325
SN - 9781424400324
T3 - Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings
SP - 1870
EP - 1872
BT - 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'06
Y2 - 30 August 2006 through 3 September 2006
ER -
