Diffusion abnormality in posterior cingulate fiber tracts in Alzheimer's disease: Tract-specific analysis

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 466-473

  Nakata, Yasuhiro ^a   Sato, Noriko ^b   Abe, Osamu ^a   Shikakura, Shoko ^a   Arima, Kunimasa ^b   Furuta, Nobuo ^b   Uno, Masatake ^c   Hirai, Shigeo ^d   Masutani, Yoshitaka ^a   Ohtomo, Kuni ^a   Aoki, Shigeki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^c Yoshioka Rehabilitation Clinic   (Japan)

^d Department of Psychiatry   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Diffusion tensor imaging; Diffusion tensor tractography; Posterior cingulate; Tract specific analysis

Indexed keywords

MYELIN;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPATHOLOGY; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANISOTROPY; AXONS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 55949115316     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: 18625274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11604-008-0258-3     Document Type: Article

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