Quantitative diffusion tensor tractography of the motor and sensory tract in children with cerebral palsy

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 935-940

  Yoshida, Shoko ^a   Hayakawa, Katsumi ^a   Yamamoto, Akira ^a   Okano, Souzo ^a   Kanda, Toyoko ^b   Yamori, Yuriko ^b   Yoshida, Naoko ^b   Hirota, Haruyo ^b  

^a KYOTO CITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b St Joseph Hospital for Handicapped Children   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GROSS MOTOR FUNCTION CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR SYSTEM; POSTERIOR THALAMIC RADIATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSORY SYSTEM; SPASTIC DIPLEGIA; SPASTIC TETRAPLEGIA; SPASTIC TRIPLEGIA; THALAMUS POSTERIOR NUCLEUS; TRACTOGRAPHY;

ANISOTROPY; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 77956484720     PISSN: 00121622     EISSN: 14698749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.2010.03669.x     Document Type: Article

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