Projecting the sulcal pattern of human brains onto a 2D plane - A new approach using potential theory and MRI

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 75-84

  Haidekker, Mark A ^a   Evertsz, Carl J G ^a   Fitzek, Clemens ^b   Boor, Stephan ^b   Andresen, Reimer ^c   Falkai, Peter ^d   Stoeter, Peter ^b   Peitgen, Heinz Otto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^c Behring Municipal Hospital   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

3 Dimensional Image Processing; Brain mapping; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Twins

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; BIOMETRY; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0032569243     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4927(98)00029-8     Document Type: Article

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