Changes in normal-appearing white matter precede development of white matter lesions

Stroke

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1037-1042

  De Groot, Marius ^a   Verhaaren, Benjamin F J ^a   De Boer, Renske ^a   Klein, Stefan ^a   Hofman, Albert ^a   Van Der Lugt, Aad ^a   Ikram, M Arfan ^a   Niessen, Wiro J ^a,b   Vernooij, Meike W ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; MRI; White matter disease; White matter hyperintensities; White matter lesions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL APPEARING WHITE MATTER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER LESION;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; COHORT STUDIES; DIFFUSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84876286394     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.112.680223     Document Type: Article

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