White matter damage of patients with Alzheimer's disease correlated with the decreased cognitive function

Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 150-156

  Duan, Jin Hai ^a   Wang, Hua Qiao ^a   Xu, Jie ^a   Lin, Xian ^a   Chen, Shao Qiong ^a   Kang, Zhuang ^a   Yao, Zhi Bin ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Diffusion tensor imaging; Fractional anisotropy; Mean diffusivity; White matter damage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CAPSULA INTERNA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; CHINA; COGNITION DISORDERS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 33646072746     PISSN: 09301038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00276-006-0111-2     Document Type: Article

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