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Quantification of Brain Images Using Korean Standard Templates and Structural and Cytoarchitectonic Probabilistic Maps  

Lee, Jae-Sung (Departments of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University)
Lee, Dong-Soo (Departments of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University)
Kim, Yu-Kyeong (Departments of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University)
Kim, Jin-Su (Departments of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University)
Lee, Jong-Min (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Hanyang University)
Koo, Bang-Bon (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Hanyang University)
Kim, Jae-Jin (Department of Neuropsychiatry, Yonsei University)
Kwon, Jun-Soo (Department of Neuropsychiatry, Seoul National University)
Yoo, Tae-Woo (Department of Family Medicine, Seoul National University)
Chang, Ki-Hyun (Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Seoul National University)
Kim, Sun-I. (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Hanyang University)
Kang, Hye-Jin (Departments of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University)
Kang, Eun-Joo (Departments of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University)
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The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine / v.38, no.3, 2004 , pp. 241-252 More about this Journal
Abstract
Purpose: Population based structural and functional maps of the brain provide effective tools for the analysis and interpretation of complex and individually variable brain data. Brain MRI and PET standard templates and statistical probabilistic maps based on image data of Korean normal volunteers have been developed and probabilistic maps based on cytoarchitectonic data have been introduced. A quantification method using these data was developed for the objective assessment of regional intensity in the brain images. Materials and Methods: Age, gender and ethnic specific anatomical and functional brain templates based on MR and PET images of Korean normal volunteers were developed. Korean structural probabilistic maps for 89 brain regions and cytoarchitectonic probabilistic maps for 13 Brodmann areas were transformed onto the standard templates. Brain FDG PET and SPGR MR images of normal volunteers were spatially normalized onto the template of each modality and gender. Regional uptake of radiotracers in PET and gray matter concentration in MR images were then quantified by averaging (or summing) regional intensities weighted using the probabilistic maps of brain regions. Regionally specific effects of aging on glucose metabolism in cingulate cortex were also examined. Results: Quantification program could generate quantification results for single spatially normalized images per 20 seconds. Glucose metabolism change in cingulate gyrus was regionally specific: ratios of glucose metabolism in the rostral anterior cingulate vs. posterior cingulate and the caudal anterior cingulate vs. posterior cingulate were significantly decreased as the age increased. 'Rostral anterior'/'posterior' was decreased by 3.1% per decade of age ($P<10^{-11}$, r=0.81) and 'caudal anterior'/'posterior' was decreased by 1.7% ($P<10^{-8}$, r=0.72). Conclusion: Ethnic specific standard templates and probabilistic maps and quantification program developed in this study will be useful for the analysis of brain image of Korean people since the difference in shape of the hemispheres and the sulcal pattern of brain relative to age, gender, races, and diseases cannot be fully overcome by the nonlinear spatial normalization techniques.
Keywords
Statistical probabilistic map; Standard template; PET; SPECT; Quantification;
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