Voxel Based Analysis of Diffusion Indices in Patients with Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma Using Tract-Based Spatial Statistics

Manuel A. Schmidt^1*#, Sultan Haider^3,4,6#, Angelika Mennecke¹, Richard Johnson⁴, Joachim Hornegger^3,4,5, Georg Michelson², Arnd Doerfler¹ and Tobias Engelhorn¹

¹Department of Neuroradiology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

²Department of Ophthalmology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

³Pattern Recognition Lab, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

⁴Central Institute of Medical Engineering, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

⁵Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT), University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

⁶Siemens Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany

^#Contributed equally to this work

^*Corresponding Author: Manuel A. Schmidt, MD, Department of Neuroradiology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Schwabachanlage 6, 91054 Erlangen, Germany, Tel: +49 9131 85 44821, Fax: +49 9131 85 36179 Email: