Detection and Predictive Value of Fractional Anisotropy Changes of the Corticospinal Tract in the Acute Phase of a Stroke

Stroke

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1520-1526

  Doughty, Christopher ^a   Wang, Jasmine ^a   Feng, Wuwei ^a,b   Hackney, David ^a   Pani, Ethan ^a   Schlaug, Gottfried ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

corticospinal tract; diffusion tensor imaging; lesion load; lesion mapping; magnetic resonance imaging; outcomes assessment; stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBRAL PEDUNCLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUGL MEYER ASSESSMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR FUNCTION TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; UPPER LIMB; AGED; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONVALESCENCE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL PEDUNCLE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84965011040     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.115.012088     Document Type: Article

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