Mean diffusivity as a potential diffusion tensor biomarker of motor rehabilitation after electrical stimulation incorporating task specific exercise in stroke: a pilot study

Brain Imaging and Behavior

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 359-369

  Boespflug, Erin L ^a   Storrs, Judd M ^b   Allendorfer, Jane B ^a   Lamy, Martine ^a   Eliassen, James C ^b   Page, Stephen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Hemiplegia; Mean diffusivity; Neuroimaging; Occupational therapy; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBELLAR PEDUNCLE; PILOT STUDY; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STROKE PATIENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; ARM; BRAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FOLLOW UP; IMAGE PROCESSING; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MIDDLE AGED; PARESIS; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL MANIPULATIONS; PARESIS; PILOT PROJECTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 84907693827     PISSN: 19317557     EISSN: 19317565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11682-011-9144-1     Document Type: Article

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