Evaluation of ventriculomegaly using diffusion tensor imaging: Correlations with chronic hydrocephalus and atrophy

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 832-839

  Osuka, Satoru ^a   Matsushita, Akira ^a   Yamamoto, Tetsuya ^a   Saotome, Kousaku ^c   Isobe, Tomonori ^a   Nagatomo, Yasushi ^e   Komasumoto, Tomohi ^b   Komatsu, Yoji ^d   IshiKawa, Eiichi ^a   Matsumura, Akira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c Department of Radiological Technology ^*  (Japan)

^d TSUKUBA MEDICAL CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Caudate nucleus; Diffusion anisotropy; Diffusion tensor imaging; Hydrocephalus; Ventriculomegaly

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN LATERAL VENTRICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; LUMBOPERITONEAL SHUNT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHUNTING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATROPHY; BRAIN DISEASES; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; LATERAL VENTRICLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 77950657513     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2009.7.JNS09550     Document Type: Article

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