Evaluation of Diffusion-Tensor Imaging-Based Global Search and Tractography for Tumor Surgery Close to the Language System
Figure 2
Axial slices of MRI data in upward order with the Broca and Wernicke speech areas (yellow), fMRI activations (white and yellow) and ventral pathways along the inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus (IFOF) reconstructed by global search (GS) (green). Images show patient (female, 36 years old) with language lateralized to the left hemisphere and with a left temporal astrocytoma (WHO grade II, shown in red).