Characterisation of the Corticospinal Tract Using Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Unilateral and Bilateral Cerebral Palsy Patients

摘要

BackgroundNeuroimaging is increasingly used to locate the lesion that causes cerebral palsy (CP) and its extent in the brains of CP patients. Conventional structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) does not indicate the connectional pattern of white matter; however, with the help of diffusion MRI, fibre tracking of white matter can be done.