White matter degeneration with aging: Longitudinal diffusion MR imaging analysis

Radiology

Volumn 279, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 532-541

  De Groot, Marius ^a   Cremers, Lotte G M ^a   Arfan Ikram, M ^a   Hofman, Albert ^a   Krestin, Gabriel P ^a   Van Der Lugt, Aad ^a   Niessen, Wiro J ^a,b   Vernooij, Meike W ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEGENERATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; WHITE MATTER; ANISOTROPY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPLICATION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MYELINATED NERVE; NETHERLANDS; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; ANISOTROPY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NETHERLANDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84965116464     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2015150103     Document Type: Article

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