Correlation of cognitive dysfunction and diffusion tensor MRI measures in patients with mild and moderate multiple sclerosis

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1492-1498

  Van Hecke, Wim ^a   Nagels, Guy ^b   Leemans, Alexander ^c   Vandervliet, Evert ^a   Sijbers, Jan ^a   Parizel, Paul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b National Multiple Sclerosis Center   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cognitive decline; Diffusion tensor imaging; Multiple sclerosis; Paced auditory serial addition test; Voxel based analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPLICATION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION DISORDERS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS;

EID: 77952851182     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22198     Document Type: Article

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