Incorporating functional MR imaging into diffusion tensor tractography in the preoperative assessment of the corticospinal tract in patients with brain tumors

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1354-1361

  Smits, M ^a   Vernooij, M W ^a   Wielopolski, P A ^a   Vincent, A J P E ^a   Houston, G C ^b   Van Der Lugt, A ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b GE HEALTHCARE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR TRACTOGRAPHY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLIOMA; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; PARESIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; VOLUNTEER; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 34548161087     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A0538     Document Type: Article

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