Magnetic resonance imaging shows orientation and asymmetry of white matter fiber tracts

Brain Research

Volumn 780, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 27-33

  Peled, Sharon ^a,b   Gudbjartsson, Hákon ^a   Westin, Carl Fredrik ^a   Kikinis, Ron ^a   Jolesz, Ferenc A ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic diffusion; Brain asymmetry; Diffusion tensor; Neural connectivity

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; DIFFUSION; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; WHITE MATTER;

ANISOTROPY; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0032484565     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)00635-5     Document Type: Article

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