Reduced anisotropy of water diffusion in structural cerebral abnormalities demonstrated with diffusion tensor imaging

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1269-1274

  Wieshmann, Udo C ^a   Clark, Chris A ^b   Symms, Mark R ^a   Franconi, Florence ^a   Barker, Gareth J ^b   Shorvon, Simon D ^b  

^a Epilepsy Res Grp Inst N   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Cerebral structural abnormalities; Diffusion tensor imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFUSION; EPILEPSY; GLIOMA; HAMARTOMA; HUMAN; MENINGIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032739459     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(99)00082-X     Document Type: Article

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