Chronic cervical spinal cord injury: DTI correlates with clinical and electrophysiological measures

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1556-1566

  Petersen, Jens A ^a,b   Wilm, Bertram J ^b,c   Von Meyenburg, Jan ^b   Schubert, Martin ^d   Seifert, Burkhardt ^e   Najafi, Yousef ^b   Dietz, Volker ^d   Kollias, Spyridon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

assessment tools; diffusion tensor imaging; in vivo studies; traumatic spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMYELINATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPINAL CORD LESION;

ADULT; AGED; ANISOTROPY; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84861968407     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2011.2027     Document Type: Article

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