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Low MT ratio in hippocampus of amnestic MCI patients who will progress to AD

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  1. Quantitative and Functional Neuroradiology Research Unit at Meyer Children and Careggi Hospitals of Florence, Department of Experimental and Clinical Biomedical Sciences, University of Florence, VialePieraccini 50, 50139, Florence, Italy

    Mario Mascalchi

  2. Department of Experimental and Clinical Biomedical Sciences, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    Mario Mascalchi & Stefano Ciulli

  3. Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Drug Research and Child Health, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    Valentina Bessi, Sonia Padiglioni & Laura Bracco

  4. Neuroradiology Unit, Careggi Hospital, Florence, Italy

    Andrea Ginestroni

  5. Medical Physics Section, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

    Nicola Toschi

  6. Department of Radiology, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Boston, MA, USA

    Nicola Toschi

  7. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Nicola Toschi

  8. School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester, UK

    Stefano Ciulli

  9. Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering “Guglielmo Marconi”, University of Bologna, Cesena, Italy

    Stefano Diciotti

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Mascalchi, M., Bessi, V., Ginestroni, A. et al. Low MT ratio in hippocampus of amnestic MCI patients who will progress to AD. J Neurol 263, 1024–1026 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-016-8121-4

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