Selective reduction of diffusion anisotropy in white matter of Alzheimer disease brains measured by 3.0 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 332, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 45-48

  Taketomi, Masanori ^a   Kinoshita, Nagatoki ^b   Kimura, Kazushi ^a   Kitada, Masaaki ^a   Noda, Toru ^a   Asou, Hiroaki ^c   Nakamura, Takashi ^a   Ide, Chizuka ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

3.0 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging (magnetic resonance imaging); Alzheimer disease; Diffusion tensor imaging; White matter

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0037174781     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)00914-X     Document Type: Article

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