N-acetyl-aspartate levels correlate with intra-axonal compartment parameters from diffusion MRI

NeuroImage

Volumn 118, Issue , 2015, Pages 334-343

  Grossman, Elan J ^a   Kirov, Ivan I ^a   Gonen, Oded ^a   Novikov, Dmitry S ^a   Davitz, Matthew S ^b   Lui, Yvonne W ^a   Grossman, Robert I ^a   Inglese, Matilde ^a,c,d   Fieremans, Els ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diffusion kurtosis imaging; Diffusion MRI; Mild traumatic brain injury; NAA; Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy; White matter tract integrity

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; CREATINE; INOSITOL; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; N-ACETYLASPARTATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION KURTOSIS IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SIGNAL DETECTION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; AXON; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURY; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; ASPARTIC ACID; AXONS; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; CHOLINE; CREATINE; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INOSITOL; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PROTON MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84934977231     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.05.061     Document Type: Article

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