Ventral and dorsal visual streams in posterior cortical atrophy: A DT MRI study

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2572-2584

  Migliaccio, Raffaella ^a,b,c   Agosta, Federica ^a   Scola, Elisa ^a   Magnani, Giuseppe ^a   Cappa, Stefano F ^a,d   Pagani, Elisabetta ^a   Canu, Elisa ^a   Comi, Giancarlo ^a   Falini, Andrea ^a   Gorno Tempini, Maria Luisa ^e   Bartolomeo, Paolo ^b,c   Filippi, Massimo ^a  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^d SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor MRI; Posterior cortical atrophy (PCA); Tractography; VBM; Visual streams

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILATERAL INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBE; BRAIN CORTEX ATROPHY; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRONTO PARIETAL SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL FASCICULUS; GRAY MATTER ATROPHY; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTO OCCIPITAL FASCICULUS; INFERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SYMPTOM; VENTRAL OCCIPITOTEMPORAL REGION; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER ATROPHY;

AGED; ATROPHY; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE NET; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES;

EID: 84864802613     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2011.12.025     Document Type: Article

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