Diffusion abnormalities of the uncinate fasciculus in Alzheimer's disease: Diffusion tensor tract-specific analysis using a new method to measure the core of the tract

Neuroradiology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 293-299

  Yasmin, Hasina ^a   Nakata, Yasuhiro ^a   Aoki, Shigeki ^a   Abe, Osamu ^a   Sato, Noriko ^b   Nemoto, Kiyotaka ^c   Arima, Kunimasa ^b   Furuta, Nobuo ^b   Uno, Masatake ^d   Hirai, Shigeo ^e   Masutani, Yoshitaka ^a   Ohtomo, Kuni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^c Ibaraki Prefectural Tomobe Hospital   (Japan)

^d Yoshioka Rehabilitation Clinic   (Japan)

^e Department of Psychiatry   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Diffusion tensor imaging; Diffusion tensor tractography; Tract specific analysis; Uncinate fasciculus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 41149150141     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00234-007-0353-7     Document Type: Article

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