Dissecting the White Matter Tracts:
Interactive Diffusion Tensor Imaging Teaching Atlas
T Hutchins, HC Herrod, E Quigley, J Anderson, K Salzman
University of Utah Department of Neuroradiology
 
Tutorial
Introduction
Major White Matter Tracts
Brain Stem
Projection Fibers
Association Fibers
    Superior longitudinal fasciculus
    Inferior longitudinal fasciculus
    Superior fronto-occipital fasc.
    Inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus
    Uncinate fasciculus
    Cingulum
    Fornix
    Stria terminalis
Commissural Fibers
DTI Atlas
 
 
 
  Fornix
           
 
Connects:
  Hippocampus, anterior thalamus, septum, mammillary bodies;
          largest projection to the hypothalamus    
     
Function:
  Important in limbic pathway/memory    
       
Clinical:
  Anterograde memory deficit in acute infarction;    
            atrophy in mesial temporal sclerosis;    
            injury in Kluver-Bucy: visual agnosia, flat emotions, hypersexuality    
       
 
 
SAG DTI ZOOM
 
AX DTI
   
 
 
SAG DTI
 
COR DTI