MRI Markers for Mild Cognitive Impairment: Comparisons between White Matter Integrity and Gray Matter Volume Measurements

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Zhang, Yu ^a,b   Schuff, Norbert ^a,b   Camacho, Monica ^a,b   Chao, Linda L ^a,b   Fletcher, Thomas P ^c   Yaffe, Kristine ^a   Woolley, Susan C ^d   Madison, Catherine ^d   Rosen, Howard J ^e   Miller, Bruce L ^e   Weiner, Michael W ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN COMMISSURE; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; ISTHMUS CINGULUM; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL CORTEX; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RADIAL DIFFUSIVITY; SUBCORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VERY ELDERLY;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANISOTROPY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84878791771     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066367     Document Type: Article

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