Quantitative morphologic evaluation of white matter in survivors of childhood medulloblastoma

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1015-1022

  Shan, Zuyao Y ^a   Liu, Jing Z ^b   Glass, John O ^a   Gajjar, Amar ^c   Li, Chin Shang ^a   Reddick, Wilburn E ^a  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Jude Children's Research Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Fractal; Neurotoxicity; Pediatric brain tumor survivors; White matter

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOUNDARY LAYER; BRAIN SIZE; DENSITY; FEMALE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MENTAL DETERIORATION; MONITOR; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEGATIVE SYNDROME; NEUROTOXICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CEREBELLAR NEOPLASMS; CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; FEMALE; FRACTALS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVORS;

EID: 33748745104     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2006.04.015     Document Type: Article

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