Brain White Matter Shape Changes in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS): A Fractal Dimension Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Rajagopalan, Venkateswaran ^a,b   Liu, Zao ^a   Allexandre, Didier ^a,b   Zhang, Luduan ^a,d   Wang, Xiao Feng ^a   Pioro, Erik P ^a   Yue, Guang H ^a,b,c  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b KESSLER FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d LZ Biomedical LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; FRACTAL DIMENSION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHENOTYPE; RATING SCALE; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKELETON; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BRAIN; FEMALE; FRACTALS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84883628779     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073614     Document Type: Article

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