Structural changes of central white matter tracts in Kennedy's disease - a diffusion tensor imaging and voxel-based morphometry study

Acta Neurologica Scandinavica

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 323-328

  Pieper, C C ^a   Konrad, C ^b   Sommer, J ^b   Teismann, I ^a   Schiffbauer, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Kennedy's disease; MRI; Spinobulbar muscular atrophy; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN STEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE DURATION; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GENETICS; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KENNEDY DISEASE; MALE; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; ANISOTROPY; ATROPHY; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; BULBO-SPINAL ATROPHY, X-LINKED; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FASCICULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED;

EID: 84878374836     PISSN: 00016314     EISSN: 16000404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ane.12018     Document Type: Article

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