Diffusion Tensor Tractography versus Volumetric Imaging in the Diagnosis of Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Santillo, Alexander Frizell ^a   Mårtensson, Johanna ^b   Lindberg, Olof ^c   Nilsson, Markus ^a   Manzouri, Amir ^c   Landqvist Waldö, Maria ^a   van Westen, Danielle ^d   Wahlund, Lars Olof ^c   Lätt, Jimmy ^d   Nilsson, Christer ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANTERIOR CINGULUM BUNDLE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL ATROPHY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FRONTAL VARIANT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; RADIAL DIFFUSIVITY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; VOLUMETRY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84880418244     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066932     Document Type: Article

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