Preliminary experience with diffusion tensor imaging before and after re-irradiation treatments in children with progressive diffuse pontine glioma

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 925-930

  Khatua, Soumen ^a   Hou, Ping ^a   Bodiwala, Ravi ^b   Wolff, Johannes ^c   Hamilton, Jackson ^a   Patil, Shekhar ^a   Zaky, Wafik ^a   Mahajan, Anita ^a   Ketonen, Leena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Jefferson City Medical Group   (United States)

^c TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma; Diffusion tensor imaging; Fractional anisotropy; Re irradiation

Indexed keywords

ABDUCENS NERVE PARALYSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GAIT; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; MOBILIZATION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PONTINE GLIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; REPEAT PROCEDURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPASTICITY; SPEECH; SWALLOWING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR VOLUME; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN STEM NEOPLASMS; GLIOMA; MIDDLE CEREBELLAR PEDUNCLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES;

ANISOTROPY; BRAIN STEM NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBELLAR PEDUNCLE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84899625626     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: 14330350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-013-2350-y     Document Type: Article

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