Atlas-based versus individual-based fiber tracking of the corpus callosum in patients with multiple sclerosis: Reliability and clinical correlations

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 355-364

  Marcella Laganà, Maria ^a   Ceccarelli, Antonia ^a   Giulia Preti, Maria ^a,b   Venturelli, Chiara ^a,b   Pia Sormani, Maria ^a,c   Cavarretta, Rosella ^a   Baselli, Giuseppe ^a,b   Cecconi, Pietro ^a   Caputo, Domenico ^a   Rovaris, Marco ^a  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE DON CARLO GNOCCHI   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; Diffusion tensor MRI; Multiple sclerosis; Tractography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONLINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ATLASES AS TOPIC; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84868200170     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: 15526569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2011.00650.x     Document Type: Article

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