Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Fiber Tracking in Spinal Cord Lesions: Current and Future Indications

Neuroimaging Clinics of North America

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 137-147

  Ducreux, Denis ^a,b   Fillard, Pierre ^c   Facon, David ^a   Ozanne, Augustin ^a   Lepeintre, Jean François ^a   Renoux, Jerome ^a   Tadié, Marc ^a   Lasjaunias, Pierre ^a  

^a BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Universite Paris Sud   (France)

^c INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ASTROCYTOMA; CERVICAL SPINE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EPENDYMOMA; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MELAS SYNDROME; METABOLIC DISORDER; METASTASIS; MYELITIS; NERVE FIBER; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD LESION; SPINAL CORD TUMOR; SYRINGOMYELIA; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34247575153     PISSN: 10525149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nic.2006.11.005     Document Type: Review

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