Age related changes of diffusional anisotropy in the cerebral white matter in normal subjects

Brain and Nerve

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 331-336

  Hanyu, Haruo ^a   Asano, Tetsuichi ^b   Ogawa, Kimikazu ^b   Takasaki, Masaru ^b   Shindo, Hiroaki ^a   Kakizaki, Dai ^b   Abe, Kimihiko ^b  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

aging; brain atrophy; cerebral white matter; diffusion weighted imaging; diffusional anisotropy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANISOTROPY; ATROPHY; BRAIN; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0030924686     PISSN: 00068969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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