DTI measures track and predict motor function outcomes in stroke rehabilitation utilizing BCI technology

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue APR, 2015, Pages 1-13

  Song, Jie ^a,b   Nair, Veena A ^b   Young, Brittany M ^b   Walton, Leo M ^a,b   Nigogosyan, Zack ^b   Remsik, Alexander ^b   Tyler, Mitchell E ^a,c   Farrar Edwards, Dorothy ^b   Caldera, Kristin E ^c   Sattin, Justin A ^b   Williams, Justin C ^a,b   Prabhakaran, Vivek ^a,b,c  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Axial diffusivity; Brain computer interface; DTI; Fractional anisotropy; Mean diffusivity; Motor recovery; Radial diffusivity; Stroke rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXIAL DIFFUSIVITY; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRALESIONAL POSTERIOR LIMB OF THE INTERNAL CAPSULE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL MUSCLE STIMULATION; HAND FUNCTION; HUMAN; IPSILESIONAL POSTERIOR LIMB OF THE INTERNAL CAPSULE; MALE; MEAN DIFFUSIVITY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NEUROIMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RADIAL DIFFUSIVITY; VERY ELDERLY;

EID: 84933675073     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00195     Document Type: Article

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