Cerebral Diffusion Tensor MR Tractography in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex: Correlation with Neurologic Severity and Tract-Based Spatial Statistical Analysis

摘要

The neurologic significance of residual cerebral white matter tracts, identified on diffusion tensor tractography, has not been well studied in tuberous sclerosis complex. We aimed to correlate the quantity of reconstructed white matter tracts with the degree of neurologic impairment of subjects with the use of DTI and determined differences in white matter integrity between patients with tuberous sclerosis complex and controls with the use of voxelwise analysis.