Spinal cord quantitative MRI discriminates between disability levels in multiple sclerosis

Neurology

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 540-547

  Oh, Jiwon ^a   Saidha, Shiv ^a   Chen, Min ^b   Smith, Seth A ^d   Prince, Jerry ^b   Jones, Craig ^c,e   Diener West, Marie ^a   Van Zijl, Peter C M ^c,e   Reich, Daniel S ^a,c,f   Calabresi, Peter A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

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

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLATIRAMER; NATALIZUMAB;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISABILITY; EXPANDED DISABILITY STATUS SCALE; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN DIFFUSIVITY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARALLEL DIFFUSIVITY; PERPENDICULAR DIFFUSIVITY; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 84873667974     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e31828154c5     Document Type: Article

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