Comparison of parameter threshold combinations for diffusion tensor tractography in chronic stroke patients and healthy subjects

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Domin, Martin ^a   Langner, Sönke ^a   Hosten, Norbert ^a   Lotze, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICINE GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; STROKE;

EID: 84901360750     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098211     Document Type: Article

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