Upper and extra-motoneuron involvement in early motoneuron disease: A diffusion tensor imaging study

Brain

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1211-1228

  Van Der Graaff, Maaike M ^a   Sage, Caroline A ^b   Caan, Matthan W A ^a,c   Akkerman, Erik M ^a   Lavini, Cristina ^a   Majoie, Charles B ^a   Nederveen, Aart J ^a   Zwinderman, Aeilko H ^a   Vos, Frans ^a,c   Brugman, Frans ^d   Van Den Berg, Leonard H ^d   De Rijk, Maarten C ^e,f   Van Doorn, Pieter A ^f   Van Hecke, Wim ^b,g   Peeters, Ronald R ^b   Robberecht, Wim ^b,h   Sunaert, Stefan ^b   De Visser, Marianne ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^e CATHARINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^f ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^h DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; corticospinal tract; diffusion tensor imaging; fibre tracking; motoneuron disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; PHENOTYPE; PRIMARY LATERAL SCLEROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE MUSCULAR ATROPHY; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 79953659916     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awr016     Document Type: Article

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