Brain tumor therapy-induced changes in normal-appearing brainstem measured with longitudinal diffusion tensor imaging

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2047-2054

  Hua, Chiaho ^a   Merchant, Thomas E ^a   Gajjar, Amar ^a   Broniscer, Alberto ^a   Zhang, Yong ^a   Li, Yimei ^a   Glenn, George R ^a   Kun, Larry E ^a   Ogg, Robert J ^a  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brainstem; Diffusion tensor imaging; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED; APPARENT DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; BRAIN TUMORS; BRAINSTEM; CORTICOSPINAL; CRANIOSPINAL IRRADIATION; ERLOTINIB; FIRST YEAR; FOUR CYCLES; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HIGH-DOSE CHEMOTHERAPIES; HIGH-GRADE GLIOMAS; LONG-TERM RECOVERY; LONGITUDINAL DIFFUSIONS; MEAN DOSE; RECOVERY TIME; SUPRATENTORIAL PRIMITIVE NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL RADIATION; TIME TRENDS; VOLUMES OF INTERESTS; WHITE MATTER;

ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; CHEMOTHERAPY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DOSIMETRY; IRRADIATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY; RECOVERY; SURFACE DIFFUSION; TENSORS; TUMORS;

PATIENT REHABILITATION;

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ERLOTINIB; VINCRISTINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; ATYPICAL TERATOID RHABDOID TUMOR; BRAIN RADIATION; BRAIN STEM INJURY; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIAL LEMNISCUS; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PONS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RHABDOID TUMOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINOTHALAMIC TRACT; SUPRATENTORIAL PRIMITIVE NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BRAIN STEM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS, PRIMITIVE; PONS; RADIATION INJURIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHABDOID TUMOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858707405     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2011.03.057     Document Type: Article

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