SCIENCE - BRAIN

A research team of the University of technology of Eindhoven finalized a software tool which the doctors can use to study easily the nervous cabling of the brain of their patients.

 

 

 

Image of the cablage of the brain realized by means of the software of the researchers of the University of Eindhoven. KEPT SILENT Eindhoven

This tool converts the examinations by MRI in 3D images which detail the nervous network of the brain without need to use an invasive technique. An essential information above all act of neurosurgery, explains Bart ter Haar Romenij (professor of Analysis of biomedical imaging). He quotes for example the deep intellectual stimulation, a technique which consists in introducing a microelectrode into an intellectual zone. She serves for treating certain cases of Parkinson's disease for example.

The technique can also bring numerous new outlines on neurological disorders and psychiatric. " We can now see fine structures as spaghettis and their connections. We are however still far from seeing all the connections of the brain, there are many smaller objects, " detail Bart ter Haar Romenij.

This software tool is based on a technique developed recently called FEARLESS (Imaging of Distribution with Angular High resolution). The research team used him and worked on the transformation, the interpretation and the interactive display of these very complex data, so that they are exploitable for the doctors.

According to Bart ter Haar Romenij, this technique could be used for the relatively short period in a usual way in the hospital departments of intellectual imaging; " we need to validate documents. We now have to prove that the images correspond to the reality. There is still some work to make on duration some examination which is of one hour at present, what is far too much long. "