Magnetization transfer ratio relates to cognitive impairment in normal elderly

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Seiler, Stephan ^a   Pirpamer, Lukas ^a   Hofer, Edith ^a   Duering, Marco ^b   Jouvent, Eric ^e   Fazekas, Franz ^a   Mangin, Jean Francois ^f   Chabriat, Hugues ^e   Dichgans, Martin ^b,c,d   Ropele, Stefan ^a   Schmidt, Reinhold ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^d German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases ^*  (Germany)

^e HÔPITAL LARIBOISIÈRE   (France)

^f CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Cerebrovascular disease; Cognitive aging; Dementia; Magnetic resonance imaging; Magnetization transfer imaging; Microstructural tissue damage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RISK FACTOR; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84907930813     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00263     Document Type: Article

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