Diffusion tensor imaging of freezing of gait in patients with white matter changes

Movement Disorders

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 760-764

  Youn, Jinyoung ^a   Cho, Jin Whan ^a   Lee, Won Yong ^a   Kim, Gyeong Moon ^a   Kim, Sung Tae ^a   Kim, Hee Tae ^b  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Hanyang University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor; Freezing; Frontal lobe; Pedunculopontine nucleus; White matter

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRADYKINESIA; CELL DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FREEZING GAIT; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; MALE; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARKINSONISM; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED;

EID: 84861675773     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.24034     Document Type: Article

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