DTI measures in crossing-fibre areas: Increased diffusion anisotropy reveals early white matter alteration in MCI and mild Alzheimer's disease

NeuroImage

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 880-890

  Douaud, Gwenaëlle ^a   Jbabdi, Saâd ^a   Behrens, Timothy E J ^a   Menke, Ricarda A ^a   Gass, Achim ^b   Monsch, Andreas U ^b   Rao, Anil ^c   Whitcher, Brandon ^c   Kindlmann, Gordon ^d   Matthews, Paul M ^c   Smith, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer; Anisotropy increase; Crossing fibres; Diffusion tensor imaging; Probabilistic tractography; TBSS

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; TRACTOGRAPHY; UNCINATE FASCICULUS; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALGORITHMS; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952070775     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.12.008     Document Type: Article

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