Direct evidence of intra- and interhemispheric corticomotor network degeneration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: An automated MRI structural connectivity study

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2661-2669

  Rose, Stephen ^a,b   Pannek, Kerstin ^a,b   Bell, Christopher ^c   Baumann, Fusun ^a,c   Hutchinson, Nicole ^c   Coulthard, Alan ^c   McCombe, Pamela ^a,c   Henderson, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

ALS; Diffusion tractography; HARDI; MND; Structural connectivity reproducibility; Variability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRAIN STEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORTICOMOTOR NETWORK DEGENERATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HEMISPHERE; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION DIFFUSION IMAGING; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE PROJECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARACENTRAL GYRUS; PARIETAL GYRUS; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTIFACTS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE NET; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84855424656     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.08.054     Document Type: Article

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