Structural and diffusion imaging versus clinical assessment to monitor amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

NeuroImage: Clinical

Volumn 11, Issue , 2016, Pages 408-414

  Cardenas Blanco, Arturo ^a   MacHts, Judith ^a   Acosta Cabronero, Julio ^a   Kaufmann, Joern ^b   Abdulla, Susanne ^a,b,c   Kollewe, Katja ^c   Petri, Susanne ^c   Schreiber, Stefanie ^a,b   Heinze, Hans Jochen ^a,b,d   Dengler, Reinhard ^c   Vielhaber, Stefan ^a,b   Nestor, Peter J ^a  

^a GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

ALS; ALSFRS R; Biomarker; Diffusion; Longitudinal; MRI

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; VOLUMETRY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; AGED; BRAIN CORTEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISABILITY; IMAGE PROCESSING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84962422583     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22131582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2016.03.011     Document Type: Article

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