Utilization of diffusion tensor tractography in combination with spatial normalization to assess involvement of the corticospinal tract in capsular/pericapsular stroke: Feasibility and clinical implications

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1399-1404

  Kunimatsu, Akira ^a,b   Itoh, Daisuke ^b   Nakata, Yasuhiro ^b,c   Kunimatsu, Natsuko ^b   Aoki, Shigeki ^b   Masutani, Yoshitaka ^b   Abe, Osamu ^b   Yoshida, Mariko ^b   Minami, Manabu ^a   Ohtomo, Kuni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corticospinal tract; Diffusion tensor imaging; Spatial normalization; Stroke; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; STROKE; TRACTOGRAPHY; VOLUNTEER;

AGED; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE;

EID: 37349025790     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.20945     Document Type: Article

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