Assessment of white matter damage in subacute sclerosing panencephalitis using quantitative diffusion tensor MR imaging

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1712-1716

  Trivedi, R ^a   Gupta, Rakesh K ^a   Agarawal, A ^b   Hasan, K M ^d   Gupta, A ^a   Prasad, K N ^a   Bayu, G ^c   Rathore, D ^c   Rathore, R K S ^c   Narayana, P A ^d  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; SUBACUTE SCLEROSING PANENCEPHALITIS; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ATROPHY; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERNAL CAPSULE; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; SUBACUTE SCLEROSING PANENCEPHALITIS; THALAMUS;

EID: 33748793985     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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