These system - specific deficits may be observed
by diffusion tensor imaging and tractography measurements.
To measure white matter integrity, researchers used fractional anisotropy (FA), obtained
by diffusion tensor imaging (DTI).
Not exact matches
Led
by Aarti Nair, a student in the SDSU / UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, the study is the first of its kind, combining functional and anatomical magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques and
diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to examine connections between the cerebral cortex and the thalamus.
Among other white matter tracts, the white matter organization of the cingulum tract (as reflected
by the level of fractional anisotropy measured with
diffusion tensor imaging) was found to be positively associated with IQ.
The study, «White matter alterations in college football players: a longitudinal
diffusion tensor imaging study ``, was authored
by Michael Christian Mayinger, Kian Merchant - Borna, Jakob Hufschmidt, Marc Muehlmann, Isabelle Ruth Weir, Boris - Stephan Rauchmann, Martha Elizabeth Shenton, Inga Katharina Koerte and Jeffrey John Bazarian.
The impact of bilingualism on the microstructure of the white matter pathways related to language processing is assessed in elementary school children
by magnetic resonance
diffusion tensor imaging
Dr. Philippa J. Johnson is trying to determine if a cutting - edge MRI technique, called
diffusion tensor imaging, is able to identify early spinal cord lesions that are caused
by degenerative myelopathy.
An advanced MRI technique called
diffusion tensor imaging has been successful at detecting microscopic lesions in diseased spinal cords in humans, and researchers will see if this technique also is capable of detecting spinal cord lesions caused
by degenerative myelopathy in dogs.