White Matter Microstructural Damage on Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Cerebral Small Vessel Disease: Clinical Consequences

Stroke

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1679-1684

  Pasi, Marco ^a   Van Uden, Inge W M ^b   Tuladhar, Anil M ^b   De Leeuw, Frank Erik ^b   Pantoni, Leonardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

affect; cerebral small vessel disease; cognition; gait; stroke

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMAN; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS; WHITE MATTER HYPERINTENSITY; WHITE MATTER INJURY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; META ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; WHITE MATTER;

CEREBRAL SMALL VESSEL DISEASES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84964269961     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.115.012065     Document Type: Review

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