Serial evaluation of diffusion tensor brain fiber tracking in a patient with severe diffuse axonal injury

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1553-1556

  Naganawa, Shinji ^a   Sato, Chiho ^a   Ishihra, Shunichi ^b   Kumada, Hisashi ^b   Ishigaki, Takeo ^a   Miura, Shunichi ^b   Watanabe, Masao ^b   Maruyama, Katsuya ^c   Takizawa, Osamu ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOYOHASHI MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CHRONIC BRAIN DISEASE; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL LOBE; HEAD INJURY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NERVE FIBER; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE, TRAUMATIC; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRONTAL LOBE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NERVE FIBERS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 16644378018     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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