Predicting functional motor potential in chronic stroke patients using diffusion tensor imaging

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1040-1051

  Lindenberg, Robert ^a   Zhu, Lin L ^a   Rüber, Theodor ^a,b   Schlaug, Gottfried ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alternate motor fibers; Corticospinal tract; Directional diffusivity; Fractional anisotropy; Inter hemispheric interaction; Motor impairment; Pyramidal tract; Transcallosal fibers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; STROKE; TRACTOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; STROKE;

EID: 84857851028     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21266     Document Type: Article

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