Increased corticospinal tract fractional anisotropy can discriminate stroke onset within the first 4.5 hours

Stroke

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1162-1165

  Puig, Josep ^a   Blasco, Gerard ^a   Daunis I Estadella, Josep ^b   Thomalla, Götz ^c   Castellanos, Mar ^a   Soria, Guadalupe ^d   Prats Galino, Alberto ^e   Sánchez González, Javier ^f   Boada, Imma ^b   Serena, Joaquín ^a   Pedraza, Salvador ^a  

^a GIRONA BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE IDIBGI   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^f PHILIPS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral ischemia; Diffusion tensor imaging; Fractional anisotropy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84876289685     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.678110     Document Type: Article

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