Cortical imaging in multiple sclerosis: Recent findings and 'grand challenges'

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 345-352

  Daams, Marita ^a   Geurts, Jeroen J G ^a   Barkhof, Frederik ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cortical atrophy; cortical imaging; cortical lesions; gray matter damage; multiple sclerosis

Indexed keywords

ATROPHY; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX IMAGING; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; GRAY MATTER ATROPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATHOGENESIS; PROGNOSIS; RESTING STATE NETWORK; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER LESION;

ATROPHY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEUROIMAGING;

EID: 84880717118     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: 14736551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WCO.0b013e328362a864     Document Type: Review

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