Dynamic corticospinal white matter connectivity changes during stroke recovery: A diffusion tensor probabilistic tractography study

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 529-536

  Pannek, Kerstin ^a   Chalk, Jonathan B ^a,b   Finnigan, Simon ^a   Rose, Stephen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; MRI; Stroke recovery; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; MASK; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; STROKE; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; STROKE;

EID: 63449124815     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21627     Document Type: Article

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