An Exploratory Study on the Spatial Relationship Between Regional Cortical Volume Changes and White Matter Integrity in Multiple Sclerosis

Brain Connectivity

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 255-264

  Jehna, Margit ^a   Langkammer, Christian ^a   Khalil, Michael ^a   Fuchs, Siegrid ^a   Reishofer, Gernot ^a   Fazekas, Franz ^a   Ebner, Franz ^a   Enzinger, Christian ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

diffusion tensor imaging (DTI); fiber tracking; gray matter; multiple sclerosis; structural connectivity; white matter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901039789     PISSN: 21580014     EISSN: 21580022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/brain.2012.0108     Document Type: Article

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