MRI signatures of brain macrostructural atrophy and microstructural degradation in frontotemporal lobar degeneration subtypes

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 431-444

  Zhang, Yu ^a,b   Tartaglia, Maria Carmela ^b,c   Schuff, Norbert ^a,b   Chiang, Gloria C ^a,b   Ching, Christopher ^a,b   Rosen, Howard J ^b   Gorno Tempini, Maria Luisa ^b   Miller, Bruce L ^b   Weiner, Michael W ^a,b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia; diffusion tensor imaging; frontotemporal lobar degeneration; multimodality MRI; progressive nonfluent aphasia; semantic dementia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE NONFLUENT APHASIA; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84872474429     PISSN: 13872877     EISSN: 18758908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-2012-121156     Document Type: Article

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