Diffusion tensor imaging screening of radiation-induced changes in the white matter after prophylactic cranial irradiation of patients with small cell lung cancer: First results of a prospective study

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 379-383

  Welzel, Thomas ^a   Niethammer, A ^a   Mende, U ^a   Heiland, S ^a   Wenz, F ^a   Debus, J ^a   Krempien, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; BRAIN STEM; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CEREBELLUM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROPHYLAXIS; RADIATION INJURY; RISK FACTOR; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PILOT PROJECTS; RADIATION INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 39649086092     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A0797     Document Type: Article

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