Investigation of white matter pathology in ALS and PLS using tract-based spatial statistics

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 615-624

  Ciccarelli, Olga ^a,b   Behrens, Timothy E ^b   Johansen Berg, Heidi ^b   Talbot, Kevin ^c   Orrell, Richard W ^d,e   Howard, Robin S ^d   Nunes, Rita G ^b   Miller, David H ^a   Matthews, Paul M ^b,f,g   Thompson, Alan J ^a   Smith, Stephen M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^e ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^f HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^g IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ALS; Diffusion; MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIMARY LATERAL SCLEROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COHORT STUDIES; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS;

EID: 59949104101     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20527     Document Type: Article

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