Mapping Cortical Degeneration in ALS with Magnetization Transfer Ratio and Voxel-Based Morphometry

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Cosottini, Mirco ^a,b   Cecchi, Paolo ^a,b   Piazza, Selina ^a   Pesaresi, Ilaria ^b   Fabbri, Serena ^a   Diciotti, Stefano ^c   Mascalchi, Mario ^c   Siciliano, Gabriele ^a   Bonuccelli, Ubaldo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RILUZOLE;

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PREMOTOR CORTEX; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ATROPHY; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84879943168     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068279     Document Type: Article

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