A potential tool for the diagnosis of ALS based on diffusion tensor imaging

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 398-405

  Ben Bashat, Dafna ^a   Artzi, Moran ^a,b   Tarrasch, Ricardo ^b   Nefussy, Beatrice ^a   Drory, Vivian E ^a,b   Aizenstein, Orna ^a  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; corticospinal tracts; diffusion tensor imaging; tract based spatial statistics; white matter impairment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; LOWER MOTOR NEURON SYNDROME; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UPPER MOTOR NEURON SYNDROME; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 80055038380     PISSN: 17482968     EISSN: 1471180X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17482968.2011.582646     Document Type: Article

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