Diffusion tensor imaging in familial spastic paraplegia with mental impairment and thin corpus callosum

Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 163-167

  Ota, Miho ^a   Sato, Noriko ^a   Saitoh, Yuji ^a   Endo, Fumito ^a   Murata, Miho ^a   Asada, Takashi ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Familial spastic paraplegia; Fractional anisotropy; Mean diffusivity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PARAPLEGIA; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITION DISORDERS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; MALE; PARAPLEGIA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 59449100421     PISSN: 13473182     EISSN: 18802206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2463/mrms.7.163     Document Type: Article

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