Abnormal hypermyelination in a neonate with sturge-weber syndrome demonstrated on diffusion-tensor imaging

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 617-620

  Moritani, Toshio ^a   Kim, Jinsuh ^a   Sato, Yutaka ^a   Bonthius, Daniel ^a   Smoker, Wendy R K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; Myelination; Sturge Weber syndrome

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM; PHENOBARBITAL;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERMYELINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MYELINATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEVUS FLAMMEUS; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEIZURE; STURGE WEBER SYNDROME; SYMPTOM; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MYELIN SHEATH; STURGE-WEBER SYNDROME;

EID: 40449119644     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21248     Document Type: Article

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