Sensitivity of different MRI-techniques to assess gray matter atrophy patterns in Alzheimer's disease is region-specific

Current Alzheimer Research

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 940-951

  Clerx, L ^a   Jacobs, H I L ^a,b   Burgmans, S ^a   Gronenschild, E H B M ^a   Uylings, H B M ^c   Echavarri C ^d   Visser, P J ^a,e   Verhey, F R J ^a   Aalten, P ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d Network for Respiratory Diseases   (Spain)

^e VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Biomarkers; Cortical thickness; Manual volumetry; Mild cognitive impairment; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); DISEASE COURSE; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER ATROPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOLUMETRY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATROPHY; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84888232776     PISSN: 15672050     EISSN: 18755828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/15672050113109990158     Document Type: Article

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