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Home › Research › Topics › diffusion

diffusion

171 studies tagged diffusion, dated 1981-08-01 to 2026-10-24. Bibliography: BibTeX (.bib) · RIS (.ris)

Newest in this topic

  1. A digital biomarker of white-matter routing from diffusion MRI as an early biomarker of Alzheimer’s disease 2026-10-24
  2. Longitudinal associations between neuropsychiatric symptoms, structural and perfusion MRI changes in older adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment 2026-10-19
  3. Selective vulnerability of human basal forebrain subsystems in ageing and neuropsychiatric disorders 2026-10-15

Studies

171 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1981 to 2026

Top journals

  • Brain : a journal of neurology 12
  • medRxiv 11
  • Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 10
  • Neurobiology of aging 10
  • NeuroImage 9

79 journals in all.

Newest first, then by address. Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0); tap a score to see what makes it up. Tags were assigned automatically from each study's title and summary. The same studies as a filter in the library.

  1. Longitudinal PET Evaluation of Cerebral Metabolic Decline in Dementia: A Potential Outcome Measure in Alzheimer's Disease Treatment Studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. The American journal of psychiatry 2002-05-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Power analyses for voxels showing maximal decline over the 1-year period in regional cerebral glucose metabolism (mg/100 g per minute) were computed to estimate the sample sizes needed to detect a significant treatment response in a 1-year, double-blind, placebo-controlled treatment study.

  2. Mapping the evolution of regional atrophy in Alzheimer's disease: unbiased analysis of fluid-registered serial MRI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2002-04-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by progressive cerebral atrophy, which may be assessed by using volumetric MRI.

  3. Normalization of cerebral volumes by use of intracranial volume: implications for longitudinal quantitative MR imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. PubMed Central 2001-09-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The TIV normalization of cross-sectional brain volumes significantly reduced interindividual variation; the coefficient of variation (CV) was reduced from 10.0% to 6.0% in controls (P <.001).

  4. Prediction of cognitive decline in normal elderly subjects with 2-[(18)F]fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose/poitron-emission tomography (FDG/PET)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2001-08-28 Genetics

    Neuropathology studies show that patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease typically have lesions of the entorhinal cortex (EC), hippocampus (Hip), and temporal neocortex.

  5. Imaging of onset and progression of Alzheimer's disease with voxel-compression mapping of serial magnetic resonance images

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Lancet (London, England) 2001-07-01 Getting a diagnosis

    Progressive atrophy was revealed in presymptomatic individuals, with posterior cingulate and neocortical temporoparietal cortical losses, and medial temporal-lobe atrophy.

  6. Patterns of temporal lobe atrophy in semantic dementia and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2001-04-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Volumetric magnetic resonance imaging analyses of 30 subjects were undertaken to quantify the global and temporal lobe atrophy in semantic dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

  7. Loss of connectivity in Alzheimer's disease: an evaluation of white matter tract integrity with colour coded MR diffusion tensor imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2000-10-01 Brain scans and imaging

    A novel MRI method--diffusion tensor imaging--was used to compare the integrity of several white matter fibre tracts in patients with probable Alzheimer's disease.

  8. Three-dimensional mapping of cortical thickness using Laplace's equation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Human brain mapping 2000-09-01 Brain scans and imaging

    We present a novel, computerized method of examining cerebral cortical thickness.

  9. Memory and MRI-based hippocampal volumes in aging and AD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2000-02-08 Brain scans and imaging

    The volume of the hippocampal formation predicted performance on most acquisition and recall measures across the spectrum of normal aging and AD.

  10. Assessment of cerebral blood flow in Alzheimer's disease by spin-labeled magnetic resonance imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2000-01-01 Getting a diagnosis

    To evaluate the utility of arterial spin-labeled blood flow magnetic resonance imaging for the detection of cerebral blood flow abnormalities in Alzheimer's disease, arterial spin-labeled blood flow images in 16 contiguous 5-mm axial sections were acquired in 18 patients diagnosed with probable Alzheimer's disease and 11 age-matched controls.

  11. Volume loss of the hippocampus and temporal lobe in healthy elderly persons destined to develop dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neurology 1997-05-01 Brain scans and imaging

    NoD as well as PreD subjects had significant, time-dependent decreases in hippocampal and parahippocampal volume.

  12. Presymptomatic hippocampal atrophy in Alzheimer's disease. A longitudinal MRI study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 1996-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The hippocampal formation (HF) is known from pathological and MRI studies to be severely atrophied in established Alzheimer's disease.

  13. Hippocampal volumes in Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease with and without dementia, and in vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Neurology 1996-03-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Hippocampal atrophy detected by volumetric MRI is a sensitive feature of early Alzheimer's disease (AD), but there are no studies evaluating hippocampal atrophy by MR volumetry in other dementing diseases.

  14. A surface-based technique for warping three-dimensional images of the brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 1996-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The authors have devised, implemented, and tested a fast, spatially accurate technique for calculating the high-dimensional deformation field relating the brain anatomies of an arbitrary pair of subjects.

  15. Quantification of magnetic resonance scans for hippocampal and parahippocampal atrophy in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neurology 1991-01-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) invariably exhibit neuropathology in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex when examined postmortem.

  16. Patterns of gliosis in Alzheimer's disease and aging cerebrum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Glia 1989-01-01 Biomarkers

    The distribution of astrocytic gliosis in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and aging cerebrum, as marked by immunoperoxidase staining for glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), was examined in whole-hemisphere coronal sections.

  17. A quantitative morphometric analysis of the neuronal and synaptic content of the frontal and temporal cortex in patients with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of the neurological sciences 1987-04-01 Disease mechanisms

    A quantitative morphometric analysis was used to estimate neurone and synapse densities in cerebral cortical biopsy tissues from patients with dementia under 65 years of age and pathologically verified as suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

  18. Cognitive and neurologic findings in subjects with diffuse white matter lucencies on computed tomographic scan (leuko-araiosis)

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Archives of neurology 1987-01-01 Digital health tools

    As part of a prospective clinicopathologic study, a cohort of 105 "normal" elderly volunteers was investigated with computed tomographic scans, psychometric testing (Extended Scale for Dementia [ESD]) and neurologic examination.

  19. Aging, dementia, and brain atrophy: a longitudinal computed tomographic study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 38 out of 100. AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 1983 Brain scans and imaging

    Studies involving linear measurements of ventricular size and a volumetric measurement of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) space were performed on elderly subjects with mild dementia of the Alzheimer type and on age-matched controls.

  20. Regional cerebral oxygen supply and utilization in dementia. A clinical and physiological study with oxygen-15 and positron tomography

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 1981-12-01 Risk factors

    The cerebral blood flow, oxygen extraction and oxygen utilization has been measured regionally in 22 dements, and 14 aged normal volunteers.

  21. Some morphometric aspects of the brain in senile dementia of the Alzheimer type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1981-08-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Image analysis apparatus was used to count and measure glial and neuronal perikarya in ten size classes in the midfrontal region and superior temporal gyrus of 18 patients with senile dementia of the Alzheimer type for comparison with 12 age-matched normal specimens.

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