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Tractography Analysis for Electroconvulsive Therapy


Abstract:

Computational human head models have been used in electrophysiological studies, and they have been able to provide useful information that is unable or difficult to acqui...Show More

Abstract:

Computational human head models have been used in electrophysiological studies, and they have been able to provide useful information that is unable or difficult to acquire from experimental or imaging studies. However, most of these models are purely volume conductor models that overlooked the electric excitability of axons in the white matter of the brain. This study combined a finite element (FE) model of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) with a whole-brain tractography analysis as well as the cable theory of neuronal excitation. We have reconstructed a whole-brain tractogram with 500 neural fibres from the diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance scans, and extracted the information on electrical potential from the FE ECT model of the same head. We then calculated the first and second spatial derivatives of the electrical potential, which describes the activating function for homogenous axons and investigated sensitive regions of white matter activation.
Date of Conference: 18-21 July 2018
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 28 October 2018
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PubMed ID: 30441734
Conference Location: Honolulu, HI, USA

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