CERCIGNANI M.

Introduction. Diffusion measurements inside biological tissues provide information about tissue configuration at a microscopic level, which are inaccessible to other magnetic resonance (MR) techniques. Objectives. To quantify, using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), the damage of lesions and normal-appearing white matter (NAWM) from patients with...

Myotonic Dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is an autosomal dominant condition caused by expansion of the CTG triplet repeats within the myotonic dystrophy protein of the kinase (DMPK) gene. The central nervous system is involved in the disease, with multiple symptoms including cognitive impairment. A typical feature of DM1 is the presence of widespread...