Radiation Injury to the Normal Brain Measured by 3D-Echo-Planar Spectroscopic Imaging and Diffusion Tensor Imaging: Initial Experience

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 97-104

  Chawla, Sanjeev ^a   Wang, Sumei ^a   Kim, Sungheon ^b   Sheriff, Sulaiman ^c   Lee, Peter ^a   Rengan, Ramesh ^a   Lin, Alexander ^a   Melhem, Elias ^a   Maudsley, Andrew ^c   Poptani, Harish ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Echo planar spectroscopic imaging; Prophylactic cranial irradiation; Radiation injury; Whole brain radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; CREATINE; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN REGION; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION INJURY; SKULL IRRADIATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHO PLANAR SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WHITE MATTER; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BRAIN INJURIES; CLINICAL TRIAL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PILOT STUDY; PROCEDURES; RADIATION INJURIES; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; RADIATION INJURIES; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84920943088     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: 15526569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jon.12070     Document Type: Article

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