Voxel-based cervical spinal cord mapping of diffusion abnormalities in MS-related myelitis

Neurology

Volumn 83, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 1321-1325

  Toosy, Ahmed T ^a,b   Kou, Nancy ^a,b   Altmann, Daniel ^a,c   Wheeler Kingshott, Claudia A M ^a   Thompson, Alan J ^a,b   Ciccarelli, Olga ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISABILITY; EXPANDED DISABILITY STATUS SCALE; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELITIS; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; ANISOTROPY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPLICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPINAL CORD; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELITIS; SPINAL CORD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84921947245     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000000857     Document Type: Article

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