Brain white matter involvement in hereditary spastic paraplegias: Analysis with multiple diffusion tensor indices

American Journal of Neuroradiology

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1533-1538

  Aghakhanyan, G ^a,b   Martinuzzi, A ^c,d   Frijia, F ^b   Vavla, M ^c,d   Hlavata, H ^b   Baratto, A ^e   Martino, N ^e   Paparella, G ^c,d   Montanaro, Domenico ^b  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c Eugenio Medea'Scientific Institute   (Italy)

^d Bioinformatics Scientific Institute IRCCS E MEDEA   (Italy)

^e MRI Unit   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AXIAL DIFFUSIVITY; BRAIN STEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GENE MUTATION; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; INFERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; MALE; MEAN DIFFUSIVITY; NERVE TRACT; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHENOTYPE; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RADIAL DIFFUSIVITY; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SEX; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER LESION; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA, HEREDITARY; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84906516771     PISSN: 01956108     EISSN: 1936959X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.A3897     Document Type: Article

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