Diffusion tensor imaging of the cervical spinal cord of patients with relapsing-remising multiple sclerosis: a study of 41 cases Imagens por tensor de difusão da medula cervical de pacientes com esclerose múltipla remitente-recorrente: estudo de 41 casos
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the fractional anisotropy (FA) values of the multiple sclerosis (MS) plaques and normal-appearing cervical spinal cord (NASC) by diffusion tensor MRI imaging (DTI). METHOD: Forty-one patients with relapsing-remising MS and 37 controls were evaluated. All MRI exams were perform...
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Language: | English |
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Academia Brasileira de Neurologia (ABNEURO)
2009-06-01
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Series: | Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2009000300004 |