2012 Winter Project Week:DWIPhantom

Key Investigators

• UNC: Gwendoline Roger, Yundi Shi, Clement Vachet, Martin Styner, Sylvain Gouttard

Objective

Current software phantoms are quite abstract, quite far from human brain. The goal of the project is to create a software phantom that is human brain like for evaluating tractography algorithms. It will allow for simulating pathology, such as tumors, TBI, lesions.

Approach, Plan

Our approach is composed of different steps, first creation of high resolution atlas and co-registration of structural atlas with shape space then creation of "random-sample" phantoms in shape space and application to fiber geometry in atlas space, finally the creation of DWI with different models, but our initial model is CHARMED.

Progress