TY - BOOK AU - Shaima Fattouh Abulhassan Elkholy AU - Ayman Abdelhamid Elbasmy , AU - Hatem Mohamed Samir , AU - Mohsen Elsayed Khalil Ibrahim , TI - Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging in assessment of prognostic outcome of stroke patients / PY - 2014/// CY - Cairo : PB - Shaima Fattouh Abulhassan Elkholy , KW - Diffusion tensor KW - MRI KW - Tractography N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine- Department of Radi-odiagnosis; Issued also as CD N2 - Diffusion tensor MR imaging enable evaluation of the integrity of white matter tracts and their orientation and is used to evaluate the patterns of affection of white matter tracts following stroke. We found good association between tractography findings and patient{u2019}s clinical recovery on follow up of acute cases. All the patients with disruption of white matter tracts had residual deficits on clinical follow-up, whereas the patients with displaced and preserved tracts had near complete neurological recovery ER -