Visualizing and characterizing white matter fiber structure and architecture in the human pyramidal tract using diffusion tensor MRI

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1121-1133

  Virta, Anette ^a   Barnett, Alan ^a   Pierpaoli, Carlo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Anisotropy; Diffusion MRI; Human; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0032830679     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0730-725X(99)00048-X     Document Type: Article

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