Multicontrast connectometry: A new tool to assess cerebellum alterations in early relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1609-1619

  Romascano, David ^a,b   Meskaldji, Djalel Eddine ^b,c   Bonnier, Guillaume ^a   Simioni, Samanta ^a   Rotzinger, David ^a   Lin, Ying Chia ^d   Menegaz, Gloria ^d   Roche, Alexis ^a   Schluep, Myriam ^a   Pasquier, Renaud Du ^a   Richiardi, Jonas ^b,c   Van De Ville, Dimitri ^b,c   Daducci, Alessandro ^b   Sumpf, Tilman ^e   Fraham, Jens ^e   Thiran, Jean Philippe ^a,b   Krueger, Gunnar ^a,f   Granziera, Cristina ^a,b  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^e Biomedizinische NMR Forschungs GmbH   (Germany)

^f Siemens Schweiz AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Connectometry; Diffusion MRI; Multicontrast; Multiple sclerosis; Resting state MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN SIZE; CEREBELLUM INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMYELINATION; DIFFUSION SPECTRUM IMAGING; DISEASE DURATION; EXPANDED DISABILITY STATUS SCALE; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; MULTICONTRAST CEREBELLAR CONNECTOMETRY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAXATION TIME; RESTING STATE NETWORK; CEREBELLUM; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REST;

ADULT; CEREBELLUM; CONNECTOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, RELAPSING-REMITTING; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REST;

EID: 84925047551     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22698     Document Type: Article

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