Diffusion-based tractography in neurological disorders: concepts, applications, and future developments

The Lancet Neurology

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 715-727

  Ciccarelli, Olga ^a   Catani, Marco ^b   Johansen Berg, Heidi ^c   Clark, Chris ^d   Thompson, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRACER;

ALGORITHM; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SURGERY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENETIC RISK; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PARKINSONISM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; STROKE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES;

EID: 46849090294     PISSN: 14744422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422(08)70163-7     Document Type: Review

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