Quantitative diffusion tensor imaging in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

NeuroImage

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 486-499

  Sage, Caroline A ^a   Peeters, Ronald R ^a   Görner, Astrid ^a   Robberecht, Wim ^a   Sunaert, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 33751532124     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.09.025     Document Type: Article

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