Immediate modulatory effects of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation on patients with Parkinson’s disease: a crossover self-controlled fMRI study by Chengwei Fu, Chengwei Fu, Chengwei Fu, Xiaoyan Hou, Chunye Zheng, Yue Zhang, Zhijie Gao, Zhijie Gao, Zhaoxian Yan, Yongsong Ye, Bo Liu

“…Real taVNS was associated with a widespread decrease in ALFF in the right hemisphere, including the superior parietal lobule, precentral gyrus, postcentral gyrus, middle occipital gyrus, and cuneus (voxel p < 0.001, GRF corrected). The ALFF value in the right superior parietal lobule during real taVNS was negatively correlated with the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale Part III (r = −0.417, p = 0.004, Bonferroni corrected).ConclusionTaVNS could immediately modulate the functional activity of brain regions involved in superior parietal lobule, precentral gyrus, postcentral gyrus, middle occipital gyrus, and cuneus. …”
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Reduced interhemispheric connectivity in traumatic brachial plexopathies after bionic reconstruction by Galia V Anguelova, Agnes Sturma, Oskar Aszmann, Mehmet S Yildirim, Anna Boesendorfer, Victor Schmidbauer, Karl-Heinz Nenning, Gregor Kasprian

“…Moreover, patients showed increased interhemispheric functional connectivity from the most active voxel in the precentral gyrus and SMC in the actual movement task. …”
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Three-dimensional structure of entire hydrated murine hearts at histological resolution by Jasper Frohn, Frederik Böddeker, Marius Reichardt, Hendrik Bruns, Titus Czajka, Amara Khan, Ludovic Broche, Michael Krisch, Alberto Bravin, Frauke Alves, Jana Zschüntzsch, Tim Salditt

“…An entire hydrated murine heart has been covered at an isotropic voxel size of 1.6 $$\upmu$$ μ m (distributed over several volumes). …”
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Evaluating Different Crown Reconstruction Approaches from Airborne LiDAR for Quantifying APAR Distribution Using a 3D Radiative Transfer Model by Xun Zhao, Can Liu, Jianbo Qi, Lijuan Yuan, Zhexiu Yu, Siying He, Huaguo Huang

“…In this study, we employed three ALS-based tree crown reconstruction methods: alphashape, ellipsoid, and voxel-based combined with the 3D RTM LESS to assess their effectiveness in simulating and quantifying 3D APAR distribution. …”
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A Test-Retest Study of Single- and Multi-Delay pCASL for Choroid Plexus Perfusion Imaging in Healthy Subjects Aged 19 to 87 Years by Zixuan Liu, Qinyang Shou, Kay Jann, Chenyang Zhao, Danny JJ Wang, Xingfeng Shao

“…In this study, 12.15 % of ChP voxels exhibited ATTs longer than 2 s, potentially leading to a significant underestimation of CBF using single-delay ASL. …”
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Altered Topological Properties of Grey Matter Structural Covariance Networks in Complete Thoracic Spinal Cord Injury Patients: A Graph Theoretical Network Analysis by Wen-Li Wang, Yu-Lin Li, Mou-Xiong Zheng, Xu-Yun Hua, Jia-Jia Wu, Fei-Fei Yang, Nan Yang, Xia He, Li-Juan Ao, Jian-Guang Xu

“…Structural MRI of brain was acquired in 24 complete thoracic SCI patients (38.50±11.19 years, 22 males) within the first postinjury year, while 26 age- and gender-matched healthy participants (38.38±10.63 years, 24 males) were enrolled as control. The voxel-based morphometry (VBM) approach and graph theoretical network analysis based on cross-subject grey matter volume- (GMV-) based structural covariance networks (SCNs) were conducted to investigate the impact of SCI on brain structure. …”
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Similarity or complementarity? Understanding marital relationships in terms of sexual dimorphism in brain morphometry and gender roles by Lei Li, Xinyue Huang, Qingyu Zheng, Jinming Xiao, Xiaolong Shan, Huafu Chen, Xujun Duan

“…Sexually dimorphic neuroanatomy was investigated for gray matter volume (GMV), which was estimated by voxel-based morphometry. The brain regions that showed typically larger GMV in males compared with that in females were defined as the male-typical brain regions; otherwise, they were defined as the female-typical brain regions. …”
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Brain Iron Deposition Alterations in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment Based on Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping by Qiuyue Zhao, Subinuer Maimaitiaili, Yan Bi, Ming Li, Xin Li, Qian Li, Xinyi Shen, Min Wu, Linqing Fu, Zhengyang Zhu, Xin Zhang, Jiu Chen, Anning Hu, Zhou Zhang, Wen Zhang, Bing Zhang

“…The group comparison was performed by a voxel‐based analysis. Then we evaluated the relationships between cognitive indicators and magnetic susceptibility value (MSV) measured by QSM of the significant brain areas, which were set as the regions of interest (ROIs). …”
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Geometric Feature Characterization of Apple Trees from 3D LiDAR Point Cloud Data by Md Rejaul Karim, Shahriar Ahmed, Md Nasim Reza, Kyu-Ho Lee, Joonjea Sung, Sun-Ok Chung

“…The data processing steps involved data conversion, radius outlier removal, voxel grid downsampling, denoising through filtering and erroneous points, segmentation of the region of interest (ROI), clustering using the density-based spatial clustering (DBSCAN) algorithm, data transformation, and the removal of ground points. …”
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Autonomous inverse encoding guides 4D nanoprinting for highly programmable shape morphing by Shuaiqi Ren, Zhiang Zhang, Ruokun He, Jiahao Fan, Guangming Wang, Hesheng Wang, Bing Han, Yong-Lai Zhang, Zhuo-Chen Ma

“…By tuning the laser power of each voxel at the nanoscale, the genetic code can be spatially programmed and controllable shape morphing can be realized through the inverse encoding process. …”
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Brain function abnormalities and inflammation in HIV-positive men who have sex with men with depressive disorders by Yang Zhang, Yang Zhang, Yihui He, Yihui He, Yuan Fang, Yuan Fang, Miaotian Cai, Guangqiang Sun, Guangqiang Sun, Rui Wang, Rui Wang, Jiaxin Zhen, Jiaxin Zhen, Yulin Zhang, Zhen Li, Zhen Li, Yundong Ma, Yundong Ma, Tong Zhang, Tong Zhang

“…The correlation of imaging alterations with clinical variables and peripheral blood indicators was assessed.ResultsCompared to the HIV control group, the HADD group exhibited a higher fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations in the left superior parietal gyrus, lower regional homogeneity in the left precentral gyrus, and reduced voxel-wise functional connectivity for the seed region in the right precentral gyrus with clusters in the right cuneus, etc. …”
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Neuroimaging stratification reveals the striatal vulnerability to stress as a risk for schizophrenia by Xiaoqian Ma, Nana Feng, Lena Palaniyappan, Luolong Cao, Zixin Gu, Jujiao Kang, Liu Yuan, Lijun Ouyang, Yujue Wang, Chunwang Li, Ke Jin, Xiaogang Chen, Jianfeng Feng, Ying He, Qiang Luo

“…Compared with healthy controls (HC; n = 59), voxel-based and brain-wide volumetric changes and their associations with stressful life events (SLE) were tested. …”
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New rectum dose surface mapping methodology to identify rectal subregions associated with toxicities following prostate cancer radiotherapy by Artemis Bouzaki, Dylan Green, Marcel van Herk, Jane Shortall, Tanuj Puri, Sarah Kerns, David Azria, Marrie-Pierre Farcy-Jacquet, Jenny Chang-Claude, Ananya Choudhury, Alison Dunning, Maarten Lambrecht, Barbara Avuzzi, Dirk De Ruysscher, Petra Seibold, Elena Sperk, Christopher Talbot, Ana Vega, Liv Veldeman, Adam Webb, Barry Rosenstein, Catharine M. West, Eliana Gioscio, Tiziana Rancati, Eliana Vasquez Osorio, Alan McWilliam

“…The automatic contours were validated against the manual contours through contour variation assessment with cylindrical mapping. Voxel-based analysis of the dose surface maps for the manual and automatic contours against individual rectal toxicities was performed using Student’s t permutation test and Cox Proportional Hazards Model (CPHM). …”
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Quantification of Forest Regeneration on Forest Inventory Sample Plots Using Point Clouds from Personal Laser Scanning by Sarah Witzmann, Christoph Gollob, Ralf Kraßnitzer, Tim Ritter, Andreas Tockner, Lukas Moik, Valentin Sarkleti, Tobias Ofner-Graff, Helmut Schume, Arne Nothdurft

“…To this end, 19 forest inventory plots were scanned with both a personal and a high-resolution terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) for reference purposes. The voxelated point clouds obtained from the personal laser scanner were converted into raster images, providing either the canopy height, the total number of filled voxels (containing at least one LiDAR point), or the ratio of filled voxels to the total number of voxels. …”
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早发精神分裂症全脑灰质体积的变化

“…【目的】 研究早发精神分裂症患者全脑灰质结构的变化【方法】 对2009 年6月至2010 年11月共21例发病年龄小于18岁的精神分裂症患者和22例在年龄性别受教育年限与患者组相均衡的健康对照纳入研究对所有受试者首先以1.5T磁共振系统以冠状自旋回波序列进行全脑T2加权和质子密度加权图像,排除全脑器质性病变然后以矢度梯度回波序列得到T1加权成像T1加权图像经MRIcro软件转化为统计参数图-V(SPM5)软件可以处理的图像以SPM5软件对转化后图像进行基于体素形态学分析(VBM),完成标准化分割调整和平滑等步骤对患者组和健康对照组的平滑后灰质图像以VBM方法进行两样本t检验以阳性和阴性症状量表评估患者精神症状【结果】 早发精神分裂症患者组灰质体积小于健康对照组的脑区有:右侧额下回(MNI: 43,20,-14;clutser = 407 voxels)左侧额上回(MNI:-28,-3,65;cluster = 176 voxels)右侧额上回(MNI: 48,-10,54;cluster = 141 voxels);未发现患者组灰质体积大于健康对照组的脑区【结论】 早发精神分裂症存在右侧额下回和双侧额上回灰质异常,此异常改变可能与精神分裂症的神经病理机制有关…”
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A Longitudinal fMRI Research on Neural Plasticity and Sensory Outcome of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome by Hao Ma, Yechen Lu, Xuyun Hua, Yundong Shen, Mouxiong Zheng, Wendong Xu

“…The correlation analysis showed a significant correlation between the decreased number of activated voxels and the improvement of EMG performance. This result implied a potential connection between fMRI measurement and clinical improvement.…”
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Fast two dimensional to three dimensional registration of fluoroscopy and CT-scans using Octrees on segmentation maps by Luca Bertelli, Frédéric Gibou

“…The DRR generation process is the bottleneck of any three dimensional to two dimensional registration system, since its computational complexity scales with the number of voxels in the Computed Tomography Data, which can be of the order of tens to hundreds of millions. …”
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Deformable Models for Segmentation of CLSM Tissue Images and Its Application in FISH Signal Analysis by P. S. Umesh Adiga, B. B. Chaudhuri

“…The deformable model surface voxels are subjected to various internal and external forces derived from underlying image features as well as externally imposed constraints. …”
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Adjudicating between face-coding models with individual-face fMRI responses. by Johan D Carlin, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte

“…Accounting for the data required the inclusion of a measurement-level population averaging mechanism that approximates how fMRI voxels locally average distinct neuronal tunings. …”
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Information Assisted Dictionary Learning for fMRI Data Analysis by Manuel Morante, Yannis Kopsinis, Sergios Theodoridis, Athanassios Protopapas

“…Under the proposed formulation, the associated regularization parameters bear a direct relation to the number of the activated voxels for each one of the sources’ spatial maps. …”
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