Multilevel Deficiency of White Matter Connectivity Networks in Alzheimer's Disease: A Diffusion MRI Study with DTI and HARDI Models

Neural Plasticity

Volumn 2016, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Wang, Tao ^a,b,c   Shi, Feng ^b   Jin, Yan ^b   Yap, Pew Thian ^b   Wee, Chong Yaw ^b   Zhang, Jianye ^a   Yang, Cece ^a,c   Li, Xia ^a,c   Xiao, Shifu ^a,c   Shen, Dinggang ^b,d  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION DIFFUSION IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MODEL; NEUROIMAGING; PRECUNEUS; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS; WHITE MATTER; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PATHOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84962808677     PISSN: 20905904     EISSN: 16875443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2016/2947136     Document Type: Article

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