Assessment of white matter tract damage in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A diffusion tensor MR imaging tractography study

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1457-1461

  Agosta, F ^a   Pagani, E ^a   Petrolini, M ^a,c   Caputo, D ^b   Perini, M ^a,c   Prelle, A ^d   Salvi, F ^e   Filippi, Massimo ^a  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE DON CARLO GNOCCHI   (Italy)

^c Ospedale di Gallarate   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISABILITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77956592138     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A2105     Document Type: Article

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