Applications of Whole Brain Tractography and Implications for Clinical Practice

The complicated nature of neurological diseases–and the importance of accurate diagnosis and treatment for patient quality of life–have made the need for more advanced imaging techniques more urgent than ever. Automated whole brain tractography promises to increase the knowledge that neurologists ha...

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Autores principales: Wu, Brian W, Barr, Stephanie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
Materias:
Radiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5716682/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29226043
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1753
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description The complicated nature of neurological diseases–and the importance of accurate diagnosis and treatment for patient quality of life–have made the need for more advanced imaging techniques more urgent than ever. Automated whole brain tractography promises to increase the knowledge that neurologists have of a variety of disease processes, including schizophrenia, age-related changes to white matter, brain tumors, and epilepsy.
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spelling pubmed-57166822017-12-08 Applications of Whole Brain Tractography and Implications for Clinical Practice Wu, Brian W Barr, Stephanie Cureus Radiology The complicated nature of neurological diseases–and the importance of accurate diagnosis and treatment for patient quality of life–have made the need for more advanced imaging techniques more urgent than ever. Automated whole brain tractography promises to increase the knowledge that neurologists have of a variety of disease processes, including schizophrenia, age-related changes to white matter, brain tumors, and epilepsy. Cureus 2017-10-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5716682/ /pubmed/29226043 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1753 Text en Copyright © 2017, Wu et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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