Diffusion Tensor Metrics as Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Acosta Cabronero, Julio ^a   Alley, Stephanie ^b   Williams, Guy B ^a   Pengas, George ^a   Nestor, Peter J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CAUDAL CORPUS CALLOSUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMENTIA; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEFT SUPERIOR TEMPORAL REGION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN DIFFUSIVITY; MESIAL PARIETAL WHITE MATTER; MESIAL SPLENIAL WHITE MATTER; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; POSTERIOR CINGULUM; RADIAL DIFFUSIVITY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COGNITION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEMENTIA; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84868696256     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049072     Document Type: Article

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