Diffusion tensor imaging detects areas of abnormal white matter microstructure in patients with partial ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1719-1723

  Gropman, Andrea L ^a,b   Gertz, B ^a,b   Shattuck, K ^c   Kahn, I L ^b   Seltzer, R ^c   Krivitsky, L ^a   Van Meter, J ^c  

^a CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HYPERAMMONEMIA; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORNITHINE TRANSCARBAMYLASE DEFICIENCY; QUALITY CONTROL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHITE MATTER; WHOLE BODY SCANNER; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; ORNITHINE CARBAMOYLTRANSFERASE DEFICIENCY DISEASE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958595578     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A2122     Document Type: Article

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