Improved Sensitivity to Cerebral White Matter Abnormalities in Alzheimer's Disease with Spherical Deconvolution Based Tractography

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Reijmer, Yael D ^a   Leemans, Alexander ^b   Heringa, Sophie M ^a   Wielaard, Ilse ^a   Jeurissen, Ben ^c   Koek, Huiberdina L ^a   Biessels, Geert Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTRAINED SPHERICAL DECONVOLUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FIBER TRACTOGRAPHY; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING AND DISPLAY; MALE; MEAN DIFFUSIVITY; MEMORY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CEREBRUM; COGNITION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED;

EID: 84865627207     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044074     Document Type: Article

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