Diffusion tensor imaging detects abnormalities in the corticospinal tracts of neonates with infantile Krabbe disease

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1017-1021

  Escolar, Maria L ^a   Poe, M D ^a   Smith, J K ^b   Gilmore, J H ^b   Kurtzberg, J ^d   Lin, W ^b   Styner, M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Brooks Computer Science Building   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MARKER; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLOBOID CELL LEUKODYSTROPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SCREENING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKODYSTROPHY, GLOBOID CELL; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SPINAL CORD DISEASES;

EID: 65949121643     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A1476     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Wenger DA, Suzuki K, Suzuki Y. Galactosylceramide lipidosis: globoid-cell leukodystrophy (Krabbe disease). In: Scriver CR, Beaudet AL, Sly WS, et al, eds. The Metabolic and Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease. 8th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2001:3669-3694
2. Escolar ML, Poe MD, Martin HR, et al. A staging system for infantile Krabbe disease to predict outcome after unrelated umbilical cord blood transplantation. Pediatrics 2006;118:e879-89
3. McGraw P, Liang L, Escolar M, et al. Krabbe disease treated with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: serial assessment of anisotropy measurements - initial experience. Radiology 2005;236:221-230 (Pubitemid 40853316)
4. Hermoye L, Saint-Martin C, Cosnard G, et al. Pediatric diffusion tensor imaging: normal database and observation of the white matter maturation in early childhood. Neuroimage 2006;29:493-504 (Pubitemid 43063306)
5. Zhai G, Lin W, Wilber KP, et al. Comparisons of regional white matter diffusion in healthy neonates and adults performed with a 3.0-T head-only MR imaging unit. Radiology 2003;229:673-681 (Pubitemid 37467568)
6. Zhang L, Thomas KM, Davidson MC, et al. MR quantitation of volume and diffusion changes in the developing brain. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2005;26:45-49 (Pubitemid 43079819)
7. Schmithorst VJ, Wilke M, Dardzinski BJ, et al. Correlation of white matter diffusivity and anisotropy with age during childhood and adolescence: a cross-sectional diffusion-tensor MR imaging study. Radiology 2002;222:212-218 (Pubitemid 34031490)
8. Mukherjee P, Miller JH, Shimony JS, et al. Normal brain maturation during childhood: developmental trends characterized with diffusion-tensor MR imaging. Radiology 2001;221:349-358 (Pubitemid 33043416)
9. Mukherjee P, Miller JH, Shimony JS, et al. Diffusion-tensor MR imaging of gray and white matter development during normal human brain maturation. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2002;23:1445-1456 (Pubitemid 35154982)
10. Gilmore JH, Zhai G, Wilber K, et al. 3 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging of the brain in newborns. Psychiatry Res 2004;132:81-85 (Pubitemid 39531327)
11. Folio R, Fewell R. Peabody Developmental Motor Scales and Activity Cards. Allen, Tex: DLM Teaching Resources; 1983
12. Mullen E. The Mullen Scales of Early Learning: AGS Edition. Circle Pines, Minn: American Guidance Service; 1995
13. Yushkevich PA, Piven J, Hazlett HC, et al. User-guided 3D active contour segmentation of anatomical structures: significantly improved efficiency and reliability. Neuroimage 2006;31:1116-1128 Epub 2006 Mar 20 (Pubitemid 43851334)
14. Fillard P, Gilmore J, Piven J, et al. Quantitative Analysis of White Matter Fiber Properties along Geodesic Paths. In: Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention-MICCAI 2003. Springer; 2003:16-23 (Pubitemid 37476840)
15. Corouge I, Fletcher PT, Joshi S, et al. Fiber tract-oriented statistics for quantitative diffusion tensor MRI analysis. Med Image Anal 2006;10:786-798 (Pubitemid 44283804)
16. Schimrigk SK, Bellenberg B, Schluter M, et al. Diffusion tensor imaging-based fractional anisotropy quantification in the corticospinal tract of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using a probabilistic mixture model. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2007;28:724-730 (Pubitemid 46608615)
17. Escolar ML, Poe MD, Provenzale JM, et al. Transplantation of umbilical-cord blood in babies with infantile Krabbe's disease. N Engl J Med 2005;352:2069-2081 (Pubitemid 40664308)
18. Gilmore JH, Lin W, Corouge I, et al. Early postnatal development of corpus callosum and corticospinal white matter assessed with quantitative tractography. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 2007;28:1789-1795 (Pubitemid 47598161)