Structural and diffusion imaging versus clinical assessment to monitor amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects upper and lower motor neurons. Observational and intervention studies can be tracked using clinical measures such as the revised Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Functional Rating Scale (ALSFRS-R) but for a complete u...

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Main Authors: Arturo Cardenas-Blanco, Judith Machts, Julio Acosta-Cabronero, Joern Kaufmann, Susanne Abdulla, Katja Kollewe, Susanne Petri, Stefanie Schreiber, Hans-Jochen Heinze, Reinhard Dengler, Stefan Vielhaber, Peter J. Nestor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-01-01
Series:NeuroImage: Clinical
Subjects:
MRI
ALS
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213158216300523