Assessment of white matter integrity of autistic preschool children with diffusion weighted MR imaging

Brain and Development

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 28-34

  Abdel Razek, Ahmed ^a   Mazroa, Jehan ^a   Baz, Hemmat ^a  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Autism; Child; Diffusion; MR imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILDHOOD AUTISM RATING SCALE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DSM-IV-TR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE; WHITE MATTER; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

AUTISM; CHILD; DIFFUSION; MR IMAGING;

ANISOTROPY; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84890879210     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: 18727131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2013.01.003     Document Type: Article

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