DTI fiber tracking to differentiate demyelinating diseases from diffuse brain stem glioma

NeuroImage

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 217-223

  Giussani, Carlo ^a   Poliakov, Andrew ^a   Ferri, Raymond T ^a   Plawner, Lauren L ^a   Browd, Samuel R ^a   Shaw, Dennis W W ^a   Filardi, Tanya Z ^a   Hoeppner, Corrine ^a   Geyer, J Russell ^a   Olson, James M ^a   Douglas, James G ^a   Villavicencio, Elisabeth H ^a   Ellenbogen, Richard G ^a   Ojemann, Jeffrey G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Demyelinating diseases; Diffuse brainstem glioma; DTI fiber tracking

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GLIOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN STEM NEOPLASMS; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; SUPRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN STEM NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUPRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953577317     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.03.079     Document Type: Article

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