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Publicações por Sérgio Miguel Tafula

2014

Precise 3D deep brain stimulation electrode location based on multimodal neuroimage fusion

Autores
Da Silva, NM; Rozanski, VE; Tafula, SN; Silva Cunha, JP;

Publicação
PhyCS 2014 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems

Abstract
The success of neurosurgery strongly depends on the pre-neurosurgical evaluation phase, in which the delineation of the areas to be removed or to be stimulated must be very accurate. For patients undergoing Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) it is vital the delineation of the target area prior to surgery, and after the implantation of the DBS lead to confirm the electrodes positioning. In this paper we present a system to accurately determine the 3D position of DBS electrodes implanted within the brain of Parkinson and Dystonia patients. The system was tested using a multimodal dataset from 16 patients (8 with Parkinson's disease and 8 with dystonia) and, on average, the differences between the detected electrodes positions and the ones estimated manually by an experienced physician were less than a voxel in all cases. Copyright

2017

A diffusion-based connectivity map of the GPi for optimised stereotactic targeting in DBS

Autores
da Silva, NM; Ahmadi, SA; Tafula, SN; Silva Cunha, JPS; Botzel, K; Vollmar, C; Rozanski, VE;

Publicação
NEUROIMAGE

Abstract
Background: The GPi (globus pallidus internus) is an important target nucleus for Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) in medically refractory movement disorders, in particular dystonia and Parkinson's disease. Beneficial clinical outcome critically depends on precise electrode localization. Recent evidence indicates that not only neurons, but also axonal fibre tracts contribute to promoting the clinical effect. Thus, stereotactic planning should, in the future, also take the individual course of fibre tracts into account. Objective: The aim of this project is to explore the GPi connectivity profile and provide a connectivity based parcellation of the GPi. Methods: Diffusion MRI sequences were performed in sixteen healthy, right-handed subjects. Connectivity-based parcellation of the GPi was performed applying two independent methods: 1) a hypothesis-driven, seed-to-target approach based on anatomic priors set as connectivity targets and 2) a purely data-driven approach based on k-means clustering of the GPi. Results: Applying the hypothesis-driven approach, we obtained five major parcellation clusters, displaying connectivity to the prefrontal cortex, the brainstem, the GPe (globus pallidus externus), the putamen and the thalamus. Parcellation clusters obtained by both methods were similar in their connectivity profile. With the data-driven approach, we obtained three major parcellation clusters. Inter individual variability was comparable with results obtained in thalamic parcellation. Conclusion: The three parcellation clusters obtained by the purely data-driven method might reflect GPi subdivision into a sensorimotor, associative and limbic portion. Clinical and physiological studies indicate greatest clinical DBS benefit for electrodes placed in the postero-ventro-lateral GPi, the region displaying connectivity to the thalamus in our study and generally attributed to the sensorimotor system. Clinical studies relating DBS electrode positions to our GPi connectivity map would be needed to complement our findings.

2014

Connectivity patterns of pallidal DBS electrodes in focal dystonia: A diffusion tensor tractography study

Autores
Rozanski, VE; Vollmar, C; Cunha, JP; Neves Tafula, SMN; Ahmadi, SA; Patzig, M; Mehrkens, JH; Boetzel, K;

Publicação
NEUROIMAGE

Abstract
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the internal pallidal segment (GPi: globus pallidus internus) is gold standard treatment for medically intractable dystonia, but detailed knowledge of mechanisms of action is still not available. There is evidence that stimulation of ventral and dorsal GPi produces opposite motor effects. The aim of this study was to analyse connectivity profiles of ventral and dorsal GPi. Probabilistic tractography was initiated from DBS electrode contacts in 8 patients with focal dystonia and connectivity patterns compared. We found a considerable difference in anterior-posterior distribution of fibres along the mesial cortical sensorimotor areas between the ventral and dorsal GPi connectivity. This finding of distinct GPi connectivity profiles further confirms the clinical evidence that the ventral and dorsal GPi belong to different functional and anatomic motor subsystems. Their involvement could play an important role in promoting clinical DBS effects in dystonia.

2014

ABrIL - Advanced Brain Imaging Lab.: a cloud based computation environment for cooperative neuroimaging projects

Autores
Neves Tafula, SMN; da Silva, NM; Rozanski, VE; Silva Cunha, JPS;

Publicação
2014 36TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY (EMBC)

Abstract
Neuroscience is an increasingly multidisciplinary and highly cooperative field where neuroimaging plays an important role. Neuroimaging rapid evolution is demanding for a growing number of computing resources and skills that need to be put in place at every lab. Typically each group tries to setup their own servers and workstations to support their neuroimaging needs, having to learn from Operating System management to specific neuroscience software tools details before any results can be obtained from each setup. This setup and learning process is replicated in every lab, even if a strong collaboration among several groups is going on. In this paper we present a new cloud service model - Brain Imaging Application as a Service (BiAaaS) - and one of its implementation - Advanced Brain Imaging Lab (ABrIL) - in the form of an ubiquitous virtual desktop remote infrastructure that offers a set of neuroimaging computational services in an interactive neuroscientist-friendly graphical user interface (GUI). This remote desktop has been used for several multi-institution cooperative projects with different neuroscience objectives that already achieved important results, such as the contribution to a high impact paper published in the January issue of the Neuroimage journal. The ABrIL system has shown its applicability in several neuroscience projects with a relatively low-cost, promoting truly collaborative actions and speeding up project results and their clinical applicability.

2010

Evaluation of acute non-cardiogenic experimental pulmonary oedema using giant unilamellar liposomes

Autores
Santos, AC; Matos, CM; Perestrelo, SL; Silva, MA; Borges, FJ; Gano, L; Neves, M; Oliveiros, B;

Publicação
NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY

Abstract

2010

A new technique to evaluate experimental acute pulmonary oedema using giant unilamellar liposomes

Autores
Santos, AC; Matos, CA; Silva, MA; Perestrelo, SL; Borges, FJ; Ahmeida, T; Ferreira, N; Gano, L; Neves, M; Oliveiros, B;

Publicação
NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY

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