Diffusion tensor imaging reveals regional differences in the cervical spinal cord in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

NeuroImage

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 576-583

  Nair, Govind ^a   Carew, John D ^b,c   Usher, Sharon ^d   Lu, Debbie ^d   Hu, Xiaoping P ^a   Benatar, Michael ^c,d  

^a Emory University   (United States)

^b CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Cervical spinal cord; Diffusion tensor imaging; Dying back hypothesis; Imaging biomarker of disease severity; Neurodegeneration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOOT; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIMB MOVEMENT; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN STEM; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 77956056987     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.06.060     Document Type: Article

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