Comparing a diffusion tensor and non-tensor approach to white matter fiber tractography in chronic stroke

NeuroImage: Clinical

Volumn 7, Issue , 2015, Pages 771-781

  Auriat, A M ^a   Borich, M R ^b   Snow, N J ^a   Wadden, K P ^a   Boyd, L A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Constrained spherical deconvolution; Diffusion tensor imaging; Diffusion weighted imaging; Motor outcome; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC BRAIN DISEASE; CHRONIC PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONSTRAINED SPHERICAL DECONVOLUTION TRACTOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SOFTWARE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE PATIENT; TRACTOGRAPHY; WHITE MATTER; WHITE MATTER INJURY; WHOLE BODY SCANNER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84925442313     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22131582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2015.03.007     Document Type: Article

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