Open AccessThe Corpus Callosum Wallerian Degeneration in the Unilateral Brain Tumors: Evaluation with Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI)
Author(s) -
Sona Saksena,
Rajan Jain,
Lonni Schultz,
Quan Jiang,
Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh,
Lisa Scarpace,
Mark L. Rosenblum,
Tom Mikkelsen,
Mohammad-Reza Nazem-Zadeh
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2013/4491.2757
Subject(s) - splenium , diffusion mri , corpus callosum , medicine , fractional anisotropy , infiltration (hvac) , pathology , glioblastoma , nuclear medicine , magnetic resonance imaging , radiology , physics , cancer research , thermodynamics
The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether DTI could demonstrate the water diffusivity changes in the corpus callosum (CC), which were not visible on the morphologic imaging in patients with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) and brain metastases with no midline CC infiltration.