Alterations of the optic pathway between unilateral and bilateral optic nerve damage in multiple sclerosis as revealed by the combined use of advanced diffusion kurtosis imaging and visual evoked potentials

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
5491450	Magnetic Resonance Imaging	2017	29 Pages	PDF

Abstract

We first evaluated the relationship between VEPs and DKI and concluded that the lateral geniculate nucleus may compensate for unilateral damage in the pre-geniculate optic pathway via neural plasticity.

Keywords

Tractography Diffusional kurtosis imaging Multiple sclerosis Visual evoked potentials

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Physical Sciences and Engineering Physics and Astronomy Condensed Matter Physics

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Alterations of the optic pathway between unilateral and bilateral optic nerve damage in multiple sclerosis as revealed by the combined use of advanced diffusion kurtosis imaging and visual evoked potentials

Authors

Mariko Yoshida Takemura, Masaaki Hori, Kazumasa Yokoyama, Nozomi Hamasaki, Michimasa Suzuki, Koji Kamagata, Kouhei Kamiya, Yuriko Suzuki, Shinsuke Kyogoku, Yoshitaka Masutani, Nobutaka Hattori, Shigeki Aoki,