Distinctive disruption patterns of white matter tracts in Alzheimer's disease with full diffusion tensor characterization

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2029-2045

  Huang, Hao ^a,b   Fan, Xin ^a   Weiner, Myron ^a,b   Martin Cook, Kristin ^a,b   Xiao, Guanghua ^a   Davis, Jeannie ^a   Devous, Michael ^a,b   Rosenberg, Roger ^a,b   Diaz Arrastia, Ramon ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Atlas; Biomarker; DTI; Tract group; White matter tract

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN COMMISSURE; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MICROMORPHOLOGY; NERVE CELL LESION; NEUROIMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHITE MATTER INJURY;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84863437554     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2011.06.027     Document Type: Article

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