Assessment of corticospinal tract (CST) damage in acute stroke patients: Comparison of tract-specific analysis versus segmentation of a CST template

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 836-845

  Vargas, Patricia ^a,b,c   Gaudron, Marie ^a,b,c,d   Valabrègue, Romain ^a,b,c   Bertasi, Eric ^a,b,c   Humbert, Frédéric ^a,b,c   Lehéricy, Stéphane ^a,b,c,e   Samson, Yves ^a,b,c,e   Rosso, Charlotte ^a,b,c,e  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b Lnstitut du Cerveau et de la Moëlle Épinière   (France)

^c INSTITUT DU CERVEAU ET DE LA MOELLE ÉPINIÈRE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF TOURS   (France)

^e PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

corticospinal tract; DTI; FA; MD; stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILISTIC TRACTOGRAPHY; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SCORING SYSTEM; STROKE PATIENT; TRACTOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN MAPPING; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OXYGEN; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84875471341     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.23870     Document Type: Article

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