Presurgical Mapping of Verbal Language in Brain Tumors with Functional MR Imaging and MR Tractography

Neuroimaging Clinics of North America

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 573-596

  Bizzi, Alberto ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arcuate fasciculus; Brain tumor; DTI MR tractography; Functional MR imaging; Intraoperative electrical stimulation; Language; Plasticity; Presurgical planning

Indexed keywords

BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN TUMOR; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CRANIOTOMY; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE TRACTOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; VALIDATION STUDY; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WADA TEST;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE CARE;

EID: 70549099015     PISSN: 10525149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nic.2009.08.010     Document Type: Review

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