{"id":343,"date":"2018-04-20T01:53:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T01:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/tractem\/?p=343"},"modified":"2019-04-23T03:08:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T03:08:48","slug":"pontine-crossing-tract-pct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/tractem\/2018\/04\/20\/pontine-crossing-tract-pct\/","title":{"rendered":"Pontine Crossing Tract (pct)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Protocol PDF Document (version 1.2):<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/n30o3k5hwueb03i\/pct.pdf?dl=0\">pct<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-344\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2810\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-19-at-8.52.00-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2018-04-19 at 8.52.00 PM\" width=\"976\" height=\"378\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Instructions: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Create two separate sagittal seed regions (at approx. sagittal\u00a0slice 76 and 80), one for each side<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-345\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2810\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-19-at-8.52.05-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2018-04-19 at 8.52.05 PM\" width=\"938\" height=\"376\" \/><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>Create two separate sagittal ROI regions (lateral to the seed regions) (at approx. coronal\u00a0slice 73 and 83), one for each side.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-346\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2810\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-19-at-8.52.10-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2018-04-19 at 8.52.10 PM\" width=\"962\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>In the region list, check only the left seed region, then run fiber tracking. Based on this output, ROA placement will be clearer.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>Create one ROA region and draw three different regions:\n<ol>\n<ol>\n<li>on a coronal slice anterior to the seed region<\/li>\n<li>on an axial slice superior to the seed region<\/li>\n<li>on an axial slice inferior to the seed region<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>Check all seed regions and ROA region. Perform fiber tracking.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n<li>Under the tract list, make sure only the desired tract is checked and highlighted in purple. Save region, tract, and density files.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protocol PDF Document (version 1.2):\u00a0pct Instructions: Create two separate sagittal seed regions (at approx. sagittal\u00a0slice 76 and 80), one for each side Create two separate sagittal ROI regions (lateral to the seed regions) (at approx. coronal\u00a0slice 73 and 83), one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/tractem\/2018\/04\/20\/pontine-crossing-tract-pct\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1920,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protocol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/tractem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/tractem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/tractem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/tractem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1920"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/tractem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/tractem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":897,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/tractem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/tractem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/tractem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/tractem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}