Normal-appearing brain T1 relaxation time predicts disability in early primary progressive multiple sclerosis

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 411-415

  Manfredonia, Francesco ^a,b   Ciccarelli, Olga ^a   Khaleeli, Zhaleh ^a   Tozer, Daniel J ^a   Sastre Garriga, Jaume ^a   Miller, David H ^a   Thompson, Alan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MARKER; EXPANDED DISABILITY STATUS SCALE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAY MATTER; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RELAXATION TIME; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, CHRONIC PROGRESSIVE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RELAXATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33947271968     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.64.3.411     Document Type: Article

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