In white matter tractography from magnetic resonance imaging, a mathematical representation of diffusion (e.g., fiber orientation distributions) is first estimated from the diffusion MR data. Fiber tracing is performed via deterministic or probabilistic tractography where the tract maps and brain regions from multiple atlases and/or templates can be used for seeding and/or as spatial constraints. Field map correction and/or denoising may improve the diffusion weighted imaging data used in tractography.
Tractography framework with magnetic resonance imaging for brain connectivity analysis