Connectivity-based segmentation of the striatum in Huntington's disease: Vulnerability of motor pathways

Neurobiology of Disease

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 475-481

  Bohanna, India ^a,b   Georgiou Karistianis, Nellie ^c   Egan, Gary F ^a,b  

^a FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Diffusion Tensor Imaging; Huntington's disease; Striatum; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CORPUS STRIATUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE;

EID: 79954633425     PISSN: 09699961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2011.02.010     Document Type: Article

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