Master's Project - Visualizing Fiber Tracts in the Brain Using Diffusion Tensor Data -
Latest Image : July 22, 2005


    Title Visualizing Fiber Tracts in the Brain Using Diffusion Tensor Data
    Status Defended on 7/28/05
    Downloads Report (PDF, 49 pages, 8.9 MB)
    Presentation (PowerPoint, 32 slides, 2.0 MB)
    Movie 1 (Cut-away, 8.2 MB)
    Movie 2 (Interactive tools, 23.6 MB)
    Code fiberKit.tar.gz (177.4 MB)

    Advisor David C. Banks
    Committee Member Xiuwen Liu
    Committee Member Charles C. Ouimet
  • Goal - Create Interactive Visualization Tool of Diffusion Tensor MRI

  • Log - new
  • Images - streamline, tensorline, global illumination
  • Related Work - Diffusion Tensor MRI Visualization
  • Reference Papers - list

  • Dataset
    • University of Utah : I downloaded this dataset from here.
             type: float
       dimension: 148 x 190 x 160
       endian: big
      Movies: OpenGL (2.0 MB) Global Illumination (3.3 MB) Tensor Line (3.4 MB)

      Utah data 1 Utah data 2
      Images are global illuminated by Pane.

    • Emory University :
             type: float
       dimension: 256 x 256 x 45  (45 slices, FOV:220x220(mm^2), thickness:2(mm))
       endian: little
      Movies: Global Illumination (2.6 MB)

      Emory data 1 Emory data 2 Emory data 3 Emory data 4 Emory data 5
      Emory data 6 Emory data 7 Emory data 8 Emory data 9 -
      Four images in the second row are global illuminated by Pane.
  • Acknowledgement:
    Brain dataset courtesy of Gordon Kindlmann at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah, and Andrew Alexander, W. M. Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
    Brain dataset, Emory University.

Since Aug 28, 2004