Diffusion abnormality in the posterior cingulum and hippocampal volume: correlation with disease progression in Alzheimer's disease

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 347-354

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b National Center Hospital for Mental   (Japan)

^c Ibaraki Prefectural Tomobe Hospital   (Japan)

^d Yoshioka Rehabilitation Clinic   (Japan)

^e Department of Psychiatry   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Diffusion tensor tractography; Hippocampus; Posterior cingulum; Tract specific analysis; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 61649126837     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2008.07.013     Document Type: Article

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