Primary progressive aphasia patients evaluated using diffusion tensor imaging and voxel based volumetry-preliminary results;Avaliação de pacientes com afasia primária progressiva com imagem tensor de difusão e volumetria baseada em voxels

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 446-451

  de Oliveira, Fábio Pascotto ^a   da Costa, Jaderson Costa ^b   Marroni, Sabine Possa ^b   da Silva Silva, Ana Maria Marques ^b   Barreiro, Sthefanie Hansen ^b   Maeda, Fábio Kunihiro ^b   Portuguez, Mirna Wetters ^b  

^a HUSM   (Brazil)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anomia; Arcuate fasciculus; DTI; Language; Primary progressive aphasia; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SIZE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

EID: 79960572551     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: 16784227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0004-282X2011000400007     Document Type: Article

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