In vivo Waveguide elastography: Effects of neurodegeneration in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1755-1761

  Romano, Anthony ^a   Guo, Jing ^b   Prokscha, Torben ^b   Meyer, Thomas ^b   Hirsch, Sebastian ^b   Braun, Jürgen ^b   Sack, Ingolf ^b   Scheel, Michael ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Anisotropic inversions; Diffusion tensor imaging; Magnetic resonance elastography; Waveguide elastography; White matter tracts

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; SHEAR STRAIN; TENSORS; TURPENTINE; WAVEGUIDES;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANISOTROPIC INVERSIONS; ELASTOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ELASTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER TRACTS;

DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING;

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ELASTOGRAPHY; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; WAVEGUIDE ELASTOGRAPHY; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; MECHANICAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEAR STRENGTH; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG MODULUS;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEAR STRENGTH; STRESS, MECHANICAL; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84911986307     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.25067     Document Type: Article

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