Nursing Home & Elder Business Week
Welcome to NewsRx!
Learn more about a six-week, no-risk free trial of Nursing Home & Elder Business Week
We're a pay-per-view site for premium content. If you'd like to purchase this article, it's only $3.00.
Alzheimer Disease
Research from N. Levycooperman and co-researchers provides new data on Alzheimer disease
May 18th, 2008
"MRI-based quantification of gray and white matter volume is common in studies involving elderly patient populations. The aim of the present study was to describe the effects of not accounting for subcortical white matter hyperintensities (WMH) on tissue volumes in Alzheimer Disease patients with varying degrees of WMH (mild: n = 19, moderate: n = 22, severe: n = 18)," scientists in Toronto, Canada report. "An automated tissue segmentation protocol that was optimized for an elderly population, a brain regional parcellation procedure, and a lesion segmentation protocol were applied to measure tissue volumes (whole brain and regional lobar volumes) with and without lesion...
Source: Nursing Home & Elder Business Week (2008-05-18)
|
