Deans' stroke musings: Stereoscopic Atlas of Intrinsic Brain Networks (SAIBN)

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Friday, November 16, 2012

Stereoscopic Atlas of Intrinsic Brain Networks (SAIBN)

I think your doctor needs this in order to explain where your networks were damaged in your brain. And in 3d. Cool.
http://www.nitrc.org/docman/view.php/650/1203/SAIBN_user_manual.pdf

Stereoscopic Atlas of Intrinsic Brain Networks (SAIBN version 1.0) is a 3D stereoscopic (anaglyph method) full brain functional connectivity atlas created using a parcellation atlas published by
Craddock et al. (Craddock et al., 2012). Using 3D Slicer 3.6.3 (Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Gering et al., 1999; Pieper et al., 2004; Pieper et al., 2006; http://www.slicer.org)
and the two hundred ROI version of the Craddock atlas, 200 grayscale surface models were created using a z-stat threshold > 2.3. Additionally, each surface model was processed with a surface decimation algorithm and was smoothed with the Taubin algorithm and without surface normals.
For improved visualization of the functional connectivity networks and their relative anatomical position, the surface model of five subcortical anatomical structures (corpus callosum, bilateral caudate, pallidum, putamen, thalamus, amygdala and hippocampus) were included in SAIBN. These surfaces were created with 3D Slicer using the segmentation computed with Freesurfer v. 5.1. (Fischl et al., 1999, 2000; Dale et al., 1999; http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu).
Red-cyan glasses should be used with 3D Slicer in order to perceive the 3D stereoscopic effect.