The motor-evoked potential threshold evaluated by tractography and electrical stimulation: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 785-795

  Kamada, Kyousuke ^a,c   Todo, Tomoki ^a   Ota, Takahiro ^a   Ino, Kenji ^a   Masutani, Yoshitaka ^a   Aoki, Shigeki ^a   Takeuchi, Fumiya ^b   Kawai, Kensuke ^a   Saito, Nobuhito ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corticospinal tract; Diffusion tensor imaging; Direct fiber stimulation; Electrical threshold; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN SURGERY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVALUATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NEURONAVIGATION; NEUROSCIENCE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RELIABILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; TRACTOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAVIGATION; NEUROSURGERY; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349921608     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2008.9.JNS08414     Document Type: Article

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