Assessing a standardised approach to measuring corticospinal integrity after stroke with DTI
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Assessing a standardised approach to measuring corticospinal integrity after stroke with DTI☆
The structural integrity of the corticospinal tract (CST) after stroke is closely linked to the degree of motor impairment. Simple and reliable methods of assessing white matter integrity within the CST would facilitate the use of this measure in routine clinical practice. Commonly, diffusion tensor imaging is used to measure voxel-wise fractional anisotropy (FA) in a variety of regions of inte...
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عنوان ژورنال: NeuroImage: Clinical
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2213-1582
DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2013.04.002