Patterns of age-related shrinkage in cerebellum and brainstem observed in vivo using three-dimensional MRI volumetry

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 712-721

  Luft, Andreas R ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESENCEPHALON; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEGMENTUM; VOLUMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ATROPHY; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0032696184     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/9.7.712     Document Type: Article

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