Tract-specific analysis for investigation of Alzheimer disease: A brief review

Japanese Journal of Radiology

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 494-501

  Nakata, Yasuhiro ^a   Aoki, Shigeki ^b   Sato, Noriko ^a   Yasmin, Hasina ^c   Masutani, Yoshitaka ^c   Ohtomo, Kuni ^c  

^a National Center Hospital of Neurology and Psychiatry   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer disease; Diffusion tensor imaging; Diffusion tensor tractography; Magnetic resonance imaging; Tract specific analysis

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN TISSUE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED;

EID: 77957978471     PISSN: 18671071     EISSN: 1867108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11604-010-0460-y     Document Type: Review

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