'Importance sampling' in MS: Use of diffusion tensor tractography to quantify pathology related to specific impairment

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 237, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 13-19

  Lin, Xia ^a   Tench, Christopher R ^a   Morgan, Paul S ^a   Niepel, Graham ^a   Constantinescu, Cris S ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; Diffusion tensor; Magnetic resonance imaging; Multiple sclerosis; Pyramidal tract; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISABILITY; DISEASE COURSE; EXPANDED DISABILITY STATUS SCALE; FEMALE; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHITE MATTER;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL TRACTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 25644457675     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2005.04.019     Document Type: Article

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