Examination of Spinal Cord Tissue Architecture with Magnetic Resonance Diffusion Tensor Imaging

Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 453-459

  Maier, Stephan E ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

diffusion imaging; eigenvector; gray matter; MRI; Spinal cord; white matter

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; MYELINATION; NERVE FIBER; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD DISEASE;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 34250732908     PISSN: 19337213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nurt.2007.05.003     Document Type: Article

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