White matter abnormalities in patients with focal cortical dysplasia revealed by diffusion tensor imaging analysis in a voxelwise approach

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn JUL, Issue , 2012, Pages

  de Carvalho Fonseca, Viviane ^a   Yasuda, Clarissa Lin ^a   Tedeschi, Guilherme Garlipp ^a   Betting, Luiz Eduardo ^a   Cendes, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

DTI; Extratemporal focal epilepsy; FA; FCD, WM; Tract based spatial statistic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865836424     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2012.00121     Document Type: Article

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