Changes in fiber integrity, diffusivity, and metabolism of the pyramidal tract adjacent to gliomas: A quantitative diffusion tensor fiber tracking and MR spectroscopic imaqinq study

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 462-469

  Stadlbauer, A ^a   Nimsky, C ^a   Gruber, S ^b   Moser, E ^b   Hammen, T ^a   Engelhorn, T ^a   Buchfelder, M ^a   Ganslandt, Oliver ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; CREATINE; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVE FIBER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION;

ADULT; AGED; ASPARTIC ACID; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CREATINE; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPESTHESIA; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; PARESIS; PARESTHESIA; PROTONS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS;

EID: 33947572327     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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