Diffusion tensor imaging and fiber tractography in brain malformations

Pediatric Radiology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 28-54

  Poretti, Andrea ^a   Meoded, Avner ^a   Rossi, Andrea ^b   Raybaud, Charles ^c   Huisman, Thierry A G M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b G GASLINI INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain malformations; Children; Diffusion tensor imaging; Fiber tractography; MRI

Indexed keywords

AGYRIA; ALEXANDER DISEASE; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FOURTH VENTRICLE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; BRAIN VENTRICLE; BRAINSTEM SEGMENTATION ANOMALY; CLASSIC LISSENCEPHALY; COBBLESTONE LISSENCEPHALY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORPUS CALLOSUM AGENESIS; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; DANDY WALKER SYNDROME; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FIBER TRACTOGRAPHY; FOREBRAIN; FRONTAL LOBE; GANGLION; GRAY MATTER; HEMISPHERE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HORIZONTAL GAZE PALSY WITH PROGRESSIVE SCOLIOSIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS NUCLEUS; JOUBERT SYNDROME; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MEDIAL LEMNISCUS; MIDDLE CEREBELLAR PEDUNCLE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROENDOCRINE DISEASE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PONTINE TEGMENTAL CAP DYSPLASIA; PONTOCEREBELLAR HYPOPLASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RHOMBENCEPHALON; RHOMBENCEPHALOSYNAPSIS; SEIZURE; SPASTICITY; SUBCORTICAL HETEROTOPIA; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER;

CEREBELLAR DISEASES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EYE ABNORMALITIES; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KIDNEY DISEASES, CYSTIC; NERVE FIBERS; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATIONS; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS; RETINA; SCOLIOSIS;

EID: 84872717044     PISSN: 03010449     EISSN: 14321998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00247-012-2428-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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