Target identification for stereotactic thalamotomy using diffusion tractography

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Kincses, Zsigmond Tamás ^a,b   Szabó, Nikoletta ^a   Valálik, István ^c   Kopniczky, Zsolt ^a   Dézsi, Lívia ^a   Klivényi, Péter ^a   Jenkinson, Mark ^d   Király, András ^a   Babos, Magor ^e   Vörös, Erika ^a   Barzó, Pál ^a   Vécsei, László ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b ST ANNE S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

^c ST JOHN'S HOSPITAL   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e Euromedic Diagnostics Hungary Ltd   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRADYKINESIA; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; PARESIS; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUALITY OF LIFE; RIGIDITY; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE; THALAMOTOMY; THALAMUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREMOR; VENTRALIS INTERMEDIUS NUCLEUS; VENTRALIS ORALIS POSTERIOR NUCLEUS; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOSURGERY; STANDARD; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OBSERVER VARIATION; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; THALAMUS; TREMOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855405454     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029969     Document Type: Article

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