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Spinal Cord Gray Matter Atrophy in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

M.-Ê. Paquin, M.M. El Mendili, C. Gros, S.M. Dupont, J. Cohen-Adad and P.-F. Pradat
American Journal of Neuroradiology January 2018, 39 (1) 184-192; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A5427
M.-Ê. Paquin
aFrom the Faculté de Médecine (M.-Ê.P.)
cNeuroPoly Lab, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal (M.-Ê.P., C.G., S.M.D., J.C.-A.), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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M.M. El Mendili
dSorbonne Universités (M.M.E.M., P.-F.P.) UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, INSERM, Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale, Paris, France
eDepartment of Neurology (M.M.E.M.), Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York, New York
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C. Gros
cNeuroPoly Lab, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal (M.-Ê.P., C.G., S.M.D., J.C.-A.), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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S.M. Dupont
cNeuroPoly Lab, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal (M.-Ê.P., C.G., S.M.D., J.C.-A.), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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J. Cohen-Adad
bFunctional Neuroimaging Unit, CRIUGM (J.C.-A.), Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
cNeuroPoly Lab, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal (M.-Ê.P., C.G., S.M.D., J.C.-A.), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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P.-F. Pradat
dSorbonne Universités (M.M.E.M., P.-F.P.) UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, INSERM, Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale, Paris, France
fDépartement des Maladies du Système Nerveux (P.-F.P.), Centre Référent Maladie Rare SLA, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
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