Region‐specific impairment of the cervical spinal cord (SC) in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A preliminary study using SC templates and quantitative MRI (diffusion …

H Rasoanandrianina, AM Grapperon… - NMR in …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In this preliminary study, our objective was to investigate the potential of high‐resolution
anatomical imaging, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and conventional/inhomogeneous …

Multi-parametric spinal cord MRI as potential progression marker in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

MM El Mendili, J Cohen-Adad, M Pelegrini-Issac… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Objective To evaluate multimodal MRI of the spinal cord in predicting disease progression
and one-year clinical status in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients. Materials and …

Association between brain and upper cervical spinal cord atrophy assessed by MRI and disease aggressiveness in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

MM El Mendili, A Verschueren, JP Ranjeva, M Guye… - Neuroradiology, 2023 - Springer
Purpose To study the relative contributions of brain and upper cervical spinal cord
compartmental atrophy to disease aggressiveness in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) …

A longitudinal diffusion tensor MRI study of the cervical cord and brain in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients

F Agosta, MA Rocca, P Valsasina, S Sala… - Journal of Neurology …, 2009 - jnnp.bmj.com
Objective: To define the temporal evolution of intrinsic tissue damage and atrophy in the
cervical cord and the brain portion of the corticospinal tracts (CST) from patients with …

Multimodal assessment of white matter tracts in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

F Borsodi, V Culea, C Langkammer, M Khalil… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Several quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques have been proposed to
investigate microstructural tissue changes in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) including …

[HTML][HTML] Longitudinal evaluation of cerebral and spinal cord damage in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

M de Albuquerque, LMT Branco, TJR Rezende… - Neuroimage: Clinical, 2017 - Elsevier
Objective To evaluate MRI-based parameters as biomarkers of Amyotrophic Lateral
Sclerosis (ALS) progression. Methods Twenty-seven patients and 27 controls performed two …

Diffusion tensor imaging reveals regional differences in the cervical spinal cord in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

G Nair, JD Carew, S Usher, D Lu, XP Hu, M Benatar - Neuroimage, 2010 - Elsevier
Therapeutic development in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is hampered by the lack of
suitable biomarkers that might be sensitive to spatial and temporal patterns of …

The upper cervical spinal cord in ALS assessed by cross-sectional and longitudinal 3T MRI

T Wimmer, F Schreiber, N Hensiek, C Garz… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The upper cervical spinal cord is measured in a large longitudinal amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis (ALS) cohort to evaluate its role as a biomarker. Specifically, the cervical spinal …

Combined MR spectroscopic imaging and diffusion tensor MRI visualizes corticospinal tract degeneration in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

H Yin, CCT Lim, L Ma, Y Gao, Y Cai, D Li, Y Liang… - Journal of …, 2004 - Springer
Motor neuron damage and cortical spinal tract (CST) degeneration are pathological features
of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). We combined whole-brain diffusion tensor imaging …

Spinal cord atrophy correlates with disease duration and severity in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

LMT Branco, M De Albuquerque… - … Lateral Sclerosis and …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Our objective was to investigate spinal cord (SC) atrophy in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
(ALS) patients, and to determine whether it correlates with clinical parameters. Forty-three …