A New Approach to Assess Intracranial White Matter Abnormalities in Glaucoma Patients. Changes of Fractional Anisotropy Detected by 3T Diffusion Tensor Imaging.

Academic Radiology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 485-488

  Engelhorn, Tobias ^a   Michelson, Georg ^a   Waerntges, Simone ^a   Hempel, Susanne ^a   El Rafei, Ahmed ^a   Struffert, Tobias ^a   Doerfler, Arnd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

DTI; FA; Glaucoma; MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MALE; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84858799642     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: 18784046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2011.12.005     Document Type: Article

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